If you had a job during uni, you were probably working in a bar, behind a shop counter or handing out flyers for some debauched all-you-can-drink bar crawl.
That’s still the case for many students, according to a new study into how students are funding their way through UK universities with spiralling rents to pay.
Nowadays though, more than a third of students are finding jobs online – and earning themselves up to £189 a week in the process.
According to those who revealed they did online work, selling clothes and blogging accounted for more than one third of the 995 students in the VoucherCodesPro study.
This is where it gets interesting though.
A remarkable 11% of those said they did pornography to pay the bills while at uni. Another 19% said they did ‘webcam work’, which sounds pretty damn suspicious to us.
We’re pretty sure that Skyping your Granny to see how she’s getting on does NOT count as ‘webcam work.’
There were 4% who even said they had sold their worn underwear to make ends meet.
In some sort of demented Family Fortunes-type list, these were the Top 5 reasons given for taking up these unusual lines of online work…
- My student loan did not cover my rent – 31%
- I wanted extra money – 24%
- I enjoyed the work – 19%
- I liked the risk involved with the work – 18%
- I couldn’t get any other work – 12%
If you are an Irish student based in the UK who has turned to this type of work to pay the bills then we’d love to hear from you. You can get in touch by emailing us at [email protected] or find us on Facebook or Twitter.
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