Great Places to Make Extra Money in Vancouver, BC

Because of the nice weather and multiple culture background, Vancouver is an interesting and comfortable city to stay or live in. However, due to the weak global economy, no matter you are a college student or you are the unique breadwinner of your family, you may wonder if there are some great places in Vancouver where you can earn some extra bucks for helping pay off your study or family living expense. In fact, the answer is 'Yes!' You may consult the following tips to get some original ideas:

1 -- Use your mother tongue to earn extra bucks in local telemarketing industry.

There is a giant telemarketing market existing in Canada, as well as in Vancouver. A lot of big companies and commercial institutions provide their clients' information to local telemarketing companies and pay them to call their clients in order to persuade the existing clients to purchase more services from them, such as insurance, product guarantee extension and new product, etc. These companies constantly hire temporary employees to work in the afternoon, evening or on weekends, since their target clients intend to stay home during these schedules.

If you work as telemarketer, you can flexibly choose to work after your class or work in the afternoon or evening. However, you can use your free time to earn extra money to your pocket.

Due to the multiple culture background of Canada, in order to work as telemarketer, you don't have to be an English speaker. You can apply for the customer service job in the telemarketing company and use your mother tongue to serve the clients who speak the same language as you.

Most of these companies don't demand you of a big diploma, they just expect you to speak your own language fluently enough to make the clients on the other end of the telephone can hear and understand you well. Besides, you don't need any experience for applying this kind of job. You just have to speak your own language clearly and fluently in the interview to impress your interviewers a little bit. Afterwards, before you start to work, they will offer you some training course to help you understand the principles of this industry. Amazingly, you are also eligible to get paid while you spend the hours to receive their training course.

How to find these telemarketing companies? Buy a piece of newspapers and start to read their job-hunting section! You will immediately find some advertisements recruiting telemarketers. Telemarketing is legal and promising industry in Canada, due to its multiple culture background. However, when you search for a telemarketer job, don't expect to get any offer without interview and check the business license of the company while you are invited to take an interview. Being telemarketer is a well-paid job in Vancouver. During the temporary employment, you can make around $12 per hour, no matter you sell out the products or not. Besides you can get commissions from each product you sell out.

2 -- If you are in good physical condition, why not work in local farms during your summer holidays or weekends to earn lots of bucks?

Starting from the March of each year, the local farmers in Vancouver are ready to hire some field workers to help them harvest and package the fruits and vegetables before the products are transported to local distributors. Most of time, they calculate your income depending on the quantities of your work. If you are quite hard-working and physically active, you can possibly earn more than $200 each day. Under most situations, you can get paid in cash at the end of each working day. Afterwards, you can decide by yourself if you want to continue the hard work for the following days or not. However, you have to start working very early in the morning and work hard under sunshine or during the rainy days. You'd better be well-prepared with comfortable clothes and bottles of water.

3 -- Get your chance at 24-hour shops or restaurants.

Some pharmacies and fast-food restaurants open 24 hours a day in Vancouver. This kind of shops and restaurants always need a lot of temporary employees to cover their shifts. When they need new employees, they will always put an obvious note on the door to attract your attentions. If you are interested to work for them as to earn extra bucks, just carry your CV to visit them directly.

4 -- Stay home to make your extra bucks!

Nowadays, the Internet has blurred the borders between the cities and countries. While you stay in Vancouver, you can work online for some international websites as to earn your extra bucks. For example, you can stay home to write for Helium. In Helium, a lot of topics concerning the experiences and cultures in Vancouver or Canada need your contributions.

Besides Helium, you can also contribute your writing to other writing websites, such as Associated Content, Triond and Bukiza, who also offer payment to their international writers.

If you are not quite interested in writing, you can do some selling on EBay, which allows you to sell the unused or used stuff at home to earn some extra bucks.

In order to receive you income from these international websites, you just have to open a Paypal account which can be connected to your bank account.