How to make money as a CS student?

Question

I'm looking to make money to support myself during the school year while putting my dev skills to use.I'm doing a SWE internship this summer, which is a great experience as I'm learning a lot about RESTful APIs and AWS. Unfortunately its unpaid though, which has made me realize how valuable it is to me to have a source of income.Not sure how difficult it is to get a part-time paid internship during the school year but that's something I'm looking into. I'm also curious about smart contract development because firstly I think it's cool but I also hear that there's money to be made there. Advice?

ev1 · Accepted Answer

How did you end up in an unpaid internship? I don't know a single person that didn't have a near 15k-20k/m-equivalent stipend tier internship for SWE/SDE. I'm genuinely concerned because I don't think I have ever heard of unpaid software internships outside of f.e., office wordpress-type labour scams or similar.

bjourne · Answer

I suggest tutoring. Teaching CS to kids, non-CS students or other interested people. Lots of people pay good money for programming tutors and the experience will be very valuable.

psyklic · Answer

I would contact some professors and see if you could be an undergrad TA or research assistant!