How a Simple Decision (To Start Working Online) Has Changed My Life

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Until about a year ago, I wasn’t inclined towards entrepreneurship or hustle. At 22, residing in one of Nigeria’s most challenging cities, I held onto the belief of a promising future. Immersed in learning and research, I aspired to venture into the tech industry.

However, despite the desire for skills like software development, cloud engineering, NLP, and data analysis, my main setback needed to be improved practice.

Well, in tech you don’t get paid for the knowledge, you get paid for the skills and value you bring, I had that in my mind but I couldn’t practice because I needed some money to start practicing. Here’s what I was doing wrong;

  • I was coding with my phone because I didn’t have a computer and couldn’t afford one.I was reading about cloud development and how to architect cloud resources, but I couldn’t get started because I didn’t have the money to register.
  • I was taking free courses online and reading content online because I couldn’t pay for online classes. Let’s be truthful, paid online courses are more effective than free online courses.
  • I was reading a lot of books but most recently updated books are not free, I saw lots of eBooks I couldn’t get because I had to pay.

There were more issues but that's a story for another day.

All these changed in 2022 when I decided to start a side hustle, make a passive income, and earn a few bucks in my spare time so I could take of these needs and also support myself through the University, I was still in Uni at that time.

What motivated me was when I read an article about making money online doing small tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk, I never thought it was possible to earn money online any time you want.

Unfortunately for me, Amazon Mechanical Turk wasn’t accepting workers from my region, so I started searching online for similar websites to make money because, at this point, I wanted the money so badly, I wanted to make some money in my spare time so that I can continue to learn all the skills I needed to have a successful career in tech (software development and cloud engineering).

When I searched online, the quickest way I could find was to start making money from survey websites and micro task websites, for those, I don’t need to invest any money nor put in much time in advance, I could just start immediately but the best-paying website was not available for Nigerians and some other parts of Africa.

Get started with some survey websites

I spent more than two months earning pennies or nothing from the websites I registered for, eventually, it became better when I knew the websites that were legit and available for me to earn, I didn’t have to go online all day searching for “legit survey/GPT websites paying Nigerians”, I knew the ones that was doing well for me, I simply had to go for the best offers, surveys, tasks, etc.

I will list these websites to give credit;ySense
  • Toloka
  • Surveyeah
  • Pagazani
  • Swagbucks

In not much time, I was making more than $100 every month, sometimes more than $200 and I could withdraw my earnings from different options out there.

Register ySense

Register Pagazani

Register Surveyeah

Register TimeBucks

Thanks.

Some online withdrawal options

What I was making wasn’t that much, I know but I wasn’t spending all my time on these sites, I was also keeping myself up to date with the tech skills. Within this period I was able to buy a laptop, pay for some tuition fees, subscribe to the internet, pay for online courses, register for AWS, GCP, and DigitalOcean, and start building on these platforms. I have gotten lots of certifications from notable companies.

I am currently hosting various websites in the cloud, on one of these websites, I write articles to help other people who want to make money online doing various jobs, for specific regions where it might be hard to earn money online, I try to tell them what website might work better for them, and I do much more on the website.

Superearner/See how I earn money

www.digitalspeed.com.ng

I can say right now that I am much more happy with my life and looking forward to the future.


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