The BEST JOB for high school students

Want a job that enhances your communication skills, feeds your ego, strengthens your own knowledge and pays ridiculously well? Tutoring, then, might be for you! Let's review the benefits...

--Pays up to $20 an hour
--Works around YOUR schedule (work 3 hours a week!!)
--Increases your understanding of subject matter
--Makes a positive impact on the community
--Free food from parents

Still not convinced? Say you work one hour three times a week for the 36 week course of the school year. That's $60 a week multiplied by 36, giving you a grand total of $2,160. That's a little less than 2/3 the cost of tuition for an instate resident at the University of Florida ($3790). For three hours of work a week.

Let's get started.

Step 1 Deciding what subject to tutor

You can tutor academic subjects most successfully, I believe, if you live in a suburban area that's middle class or upper/middle class (concerned parents with money to spend). As for nonacademic subjects, if you are a musician, singer, or artist, your talents might be sought after, but probably not as much as an older person's, meaning you'll have to teach for not much in the way of coin. Heck, even if you have a weird skill that you think people would want to learn (fire dancing, glass blowing, monkey taming), go for it.
These subjects below will probably net you the most customers, in descending order.

1. Math- Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-calc, Calculus, Statistics, Trig, etc...
2. Foreign languages- German, Spanish, French, Latin... (bilinguals and native speakers have a great advantage here)
3. Science- Chemistry, biology, natural sciences, environmental science, psychology, physics, and more
4. Standardized test preparation
5. Social Sciences or history based classes
6. Classes at your school that people have a hard time in but you seem to have a knack for

NOTE: Even if math is not your best subject, if you make good grades and did well in the class, tutoring is still an option. For most junior or senior honor students, the subject matter in algebra I is not going to be challenging. You know that comfortable feeling you get when seeing material that you've already mastered? Algebra I and Geometry is where it's at.

Comments

[bowmaster]

I think I'll tutor Geometry next year. I'm taking it now and it's the easiest thing I've ever done.

[irish death1]

I don't quite understand the last picture.

[gearskin]

Tutor.com, pays pretty well and it's all from the comfort of your own home (computer-based). I love it.

[KaptinScarlet]

great instructable I only wish I knew more maths, perhaps I could take an art class or one in creative thinking... mmmm

[thematthatter]

if your in college you can sign up as a tutor with your counselors, the school will refer students to you and the school will pay you. (the student gets the tutoring for free) but that depends on the budget.

[phant0m_sp00f3ra]

i Thought you wil talk bout drug testing Lol Great instructable! keep it like that congrats

[Weissensteinburg]

Good idea, and a well written instructable. My brother used to tutor and could get $25 an hour...he made out well. Also, when I was in AP Bio I had a lot of trouble. The kid who tutored me preferred to do groups, because besides the benefits of working in groups, he could charge each student 5-10 dollars less per hour, and still come out with much more than one on on tutoring.