Freelancing for teenagers without experience and investments - how to start making freelance money for a beginner from scratch

 Thanks to the Internet and the lightning-fast development of technology, today, without experience, special knowledge, and financial investments, anyone can earn money, including even teenagers. Not so long ago, on the pages of my blog, I already talked about how teenagers can earn their first money on the Internet, and also noted how real and profitable it is.

In today's article, I want to highlight and consider in more detail one of the most profitable areas of activity - freelancing for teenagers without experience and investments, which will be associated with the implementation of simple and well-paid freelance tasks. I will tell you about its prospects, and looking ahead, I note that it will suit everyone without exception. Therefore, at least every teenager who wants to develop and have personal money that he can dispose of at his discretion, that is, those who do not want to sit on the neck of their parents all their lives, should take a closer look at it.

What is freelancing and can teenagers make money from it

Freelancing should be understood as nothing more than the remote and timely execution of a particular work according to the customer's technical specifications for piecework payment. In this case, both large companies and individual entrepreneurs, as well as ordinary users who do business on the Internet, can act as a customer.

A freelancer, on the other hand, is a kind of freelance worker (a specialist in a particular field), who is hired for a short time to perform a specific job. At the same time, a freelancer has every right to carry out assignments anywhere and anytime (at any time convenient for himself), the main thing is that he completes the task with high quality and within the time agreed with the customer.

Why not only specialists in complex professions - programmers, IT specialists, web developers/designers, SMM managers, SEO specialists, translators, editors, etc. can work as a freelancer on the Internet and earn real money at home in their free time. , but also people who have skills in simpler areas of activity.

Undoubtedly, the above-mentioned specialists are in high demand in the market, however, there are a considerable number of simpler freelance orders on specialized exchanges, which teenagers ( schoolchildren ) and students can do, i.e. beginners with no experience. As a rule, experienced freelancers do not undertake such assignments, so you will not have to compete with them, but only with those employees who will have a similar level of knowledge and skills to yours.

Freelance professions for teenagers

Freelance work at home offers many jobs for beginners with no experience, here is just a small list of different areas of activity and the most popular types of paid assignments among customers that teenagers can take on:

• Working with text - typing, writing articles, translating or editing them, writing reviews, comments, etc.;

• Photo processing - color correction, retouching, editing, removing flaws, improving quality, and other work performed using graphic editors such as  Photoshop, Lightroom, etc .;

• Transcription - decoding audio tracks from audio and video files into the text;
• Simple routine work - elementary tasks related to searching for information on the Internet according to specified criteria, filling out tables, designing presentations, filling websites with ready-made materials, filling marketplaces with product cards, creating email boxes, sending messages, etc.;

• Administrator, manager, moderator, poster  - assistance in maintaining personal pages, channels, and communities in various social networks. networks, instant messengers, and other Internet resources;
• Video editing is the creation and processing of custom videos for popular video hosting sites - YouTube, Twitch, TikTok, etc. As a rule, you do not need to shoot or find anything yourself - all the video material necessary for work is provided by the customer.

Where teenagers can learn modern online professions

Since we are talking about education, let's immediately look at examples of available sources that any teenager can use to gain new skills and knowledge online. It is quite logical that to succeed in freelancing and start making good money on it, you will first need to decide on a field of activity in which you will succeed and which you will at least enjoy doing. As an example, let's take photo processing and everything connected with it.

Learning this skill is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance, the main thing is that there is a desire. In addition, there are quite a few free educational materials with step-by-step instructions on the Internet in free access, which are presented in both text and video format. You can find them using the Yandex or Google search engines for thematic queries - “how to learn how to retouch photos in Photoshop”, “photo retouching lessons in Photoshop for beginners”, “photo retouching in Photoshop step by step”, etc.

After you find a suitable resource (it can be either a website or a personal blog, or a YouTube channel with video tutorials), the only thing left is to learn as much information as possible and put the acquired skills into practice. To do this, you will need to download special photo editing programs (Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and others) and start repeating the techniques you have learned. And you need to do this until it just doesn’t start to work out, but until you perform all the necessary operations on a full machine, without peeping into the training material.

By devoting a couple of hours a day to training, literally in a month (perhaps even faster) you will master the basic techniques of high-quality photo processing (you will be able to retouch, color correct, eliminate imperfections, etc.), which will allow you to start offering your services on specialized resources and earn real money from it.

If you have the desire to learn something new, but you are not inclined to self-study, or it is simply difficult for you, then as an option you can ask your parents to enroll you in an online school where that provides a variety of training in modern and popular professions. Among the best are the following:

• Geek Brains
• Skillbox
• SkillFactory
• netology
• Contented
• XYZ School
• skypro

I'm sure your parents won't refuse you. And thanks to the high qualification of the teaching staff, the timely support of specialists at all stages of training, and the training materials thought out to the smallest detail, it will be much easier to achieve what you want than alone.

Best freelancing sites and exchanges for teenagers

Well, now let's take a quick look at a few reliable and time-tested sites that can provide you with a decent amount of constantly replenished paid orders, the implementation of which you can do at any time of the day or night. All of them work stably and fulfill all their main obligations - they guarantee the honesty of payment for work and the timely withdrawal of earned funds.

• UNU ( detailed review ) is a top micro-task exchange that offers a wide variety of tasks that are as simple as possible, which teenagers with no Internet experience can easily complete. Most often, here you will be required to perform the following tasks - be active on social networks, register on various sites, watch videos, write comments or reviews, download and rate mobile applications, etc. In general, this is an ideal platform with which you can understand the essence of online earnings and earn your first money without much effort.

• QComment ( detailed review ) is one of the best comment and social promotion exchanges, with the help of which anyone can freelance without investment, including beginner teenagers with no experience. Here you can earn real money by completing tasks related to writing comments, and reviews, watching videos, as well as being active in popular social networks, message boards, and marketplaces. There is even the possibility of career growth due to the ranking system, increasing the level at which access to more expensive tasks opens up. In this case, the earned funds can be withdrawn in a mass of convenient ways, the minimum withdrawal amount is only 100.
• Yandex.Toloka ( detailed review ) is a useful and rather interesting service for making money from the well-known company Yandex. By registering on it, you will become a freelancer of the company and will help its search engine and web services become better, naturally not for free - payment for work will be made in dollars. The work itself is quite simple and interesting, and it will not be so difficult to figure it out, because. each type of task is accompanied by step-by-step instructions for its correct implementation, and some even become available only after completing the training. At the same time, the better you perform certain tasks, the higher your skill as a performer will be and, as a result, you will be able to count on increased remuneration.
• Work-Zilla ( detailed review ) is the best freelancing exchange for aspiring teenagers, offering a huge list of simple jobs that can only be accessed after paying for a subscription. You can subscribe for 10 days, 1 or 2 months. At the same time, the longer you subscribe, the cheaper it will cost you in the end. For example, a subscription for 10 days costs 240, and for 2 months only 840. Plus, you can use the following promotional code, which will allow you to save an additional 100 when paying for a subscription. The presence of a subscription does not in the least make the exchange some kind of bad or unreliable, but on the contrary, it allows you to reduce competition and make work for a freelancer much more comfortable. In addition, to recapture the money spent, it will be enough for you to complete 1 or a maximum 2 of the simplest tasks.
• Advego , Text.ru , and eTXT - three top content exchanges, from which every second novice rewriter and copywriter, including myself, began to earn his first money writing and selling articles. In addition, on some of them, you can earn money by selling photos and creating videos to order, being active on social networks, mobile app stores, and various forums, writing reviews, comments and posting links on various web resources, completing field assignments, scanning checks, etc. In general, these are indispensable assistants for finding work and simple earnings, ideal for teenagers.
• vKwork ( detailed review ) is an excellent freelance marketplace where everyone can find people who are interested in their services. To do this, you just need to create the appropriate kwork (as cards with a list of services are called here), in which you will need to indicate what kind of work, in what volume, and for what price you will be ready to perform. After that, the kwork is added to the common database, and with its help direct communication and cooperation between customers and performers is carried out.

How much can teenagers earn freelancing?

Of course, I will not name specific amounts, because. this is all individual and depends on many factors (chosen field of activity, experience as a freelancer, and the volume of orders performed), but approximate ones can still be identified. So that my further words are not unfounded, below you can find some of the simplest orders and prices for them, which are right now available for execution on the Work-Zilla exchange.

Based on personal experience, I will say that at the initial stage, teenage freelancers with the right approach (giving work at least a few hours of free time a day) can quite realistically earn around 3,000-6,000 a month. And after working for a month or two, having studied all the intricacies of working as a freelancer and gaining new knowledge and skills, they will be able to earn many times more lightly. The main thing in this business is not to be lazy and not stop there, then the level of earnings will be appropriate.

Conclusion

In my opinion, adolescence is just the time when you should start thinking about your successful future and building it. At this age, as practice shows, information is absorbed better, new skills are mastered faster, and there is much more free time for learning, part of which everyone has the opportunity to manage wisely. Much of freelancing will be difficult at first, some ways of earning money and activities after mastering and testing will seem unpromising or simply uninteresting, but only by trial and error, and nothing else, you can decide on the profession and field of activity, which in the future will be pleasant to deal with and which in the future will provide you with a stable income.

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