Part-time or full-time jobs are not an option right now as low hire rate and busy college schedule, so I've been thinking about online work, ways to earn some, even if little amounts of, money doing online freelancing work. When I used to work in my high school internship, we would most occasionally hire a web designer online, which would be as cheap as 10-50$ per PSD/page, now I kind of want to have the similar for web developing (back-end and/or front-end development over HTML-ready designs) or even simple work such as PSD to HTML if I can, but I'm not sure how and where would this apply.

Is there places I can get into to search for or perhaps even leave my areas of expertise as notice? Online works, if I worked over dollar or euros would help me a lot. As an example, if I had 30$ right now, I could pay for my monthly expenses for round trips to college and home, and on top, I would still have money left for the whole month of lunch.

One final thing I must ask, it's about the latest European laws for GDPR. I don't know much about the law in detail, but as far as I get it, it applies to storing and collecting of data and providing when necessary/asked to European Union member countries. But here's the thing, I own a VPS in Australia, Sydney. And I currently host my local (Turkey) customer websites there, and as long as Turkey's not in European Union, I am unaffected by the law, I guess? Secondly, is it the same for if I took a job anywhere except European Union? Should I dodge EU countries all in all, or is this even a problem to start with?

Edit in: For your suggestions; I have offline experience as a web developer, mainly a back-end developer, started with PHP, currently using Laravel (Also have experience over Ghost, used Wordpress back in the day and starter in Node.JS back-end for now). For the front-end development, I'm using VueJS if necessary, of course fluent in HTML5/CSS3 technologies and JS, looking to get into UI/UX courses. For online experience, I have a year of experience as a ticket agent/customer support using ZenDesk for an online game. Similiarly I have been part of a year of closed-beta to live, and 2 years of an active MMOFPS games as a quality assurance member.

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Besides the obvious?

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And what is that supposed to be?

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Be a model on Patreon and send nudes to all $100+ supporters (?)

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Born into the wrong gender! :P

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I can't afford full-time or big projects due to college for now. (I have class on all weekdays, and going to college and coming back takes 5 hours from my day) However I plan to do this once it is over, and I finish building my portfolio as well, LinkedIn has a great source on remote work!

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I made money drawing futanari vocaloids. Probably best not to google that though, just consider it specialist illustration commissions...

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I know what I "futanari" is, and to be honest I dislike it! :P I have a friend that is keen to it though.
never understand why you would put a D on it!

Art is a good way to make money nowadays, at least by commissions, and kindly thanks to Patreon as well. Sadly, I didn't take interest back in my youth, so my drawing skills are a lot lacking, and I only have a handful of drawings (I seriously don't know what to draw either!), I'm somewhat average on pixel art or vector art however.

My best drawing probably is:

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I think "futanari" is the new "furry". Back in early 2000s, it was all MapleStory, GaiaOnline and... Furries, 90% of the teenager internet, heh.

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The furries always seem to have the money for commissions for some reason, although I felt I had to draw the line somewhere. And for me that 'somewhere' was anthropomorphic animals having accidents in diapers.

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Oh, I don't even want to imagine it!

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I've seen plenty of people making money from art commissions on certain sites just recolouring stuff to order - although it is a hell of a lot easier to make money with some actual drawing skills. I've mostly been doing pet portraits the last few years to be truthful;

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That looks majestic to me!

I really have to put in at least a year devoted to art if I'm to get into it probably. I never even went through with basics and only drew as I saw it fit, so I lack all the anatomical skills required as well. But I don't really have that kind of time right now, schedule is tight. :P Perhaps after I can graduate and find a stable income first!

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HAHHAHAH, that's amazing! I may be laughing, but that sounds like serious talent. I can't draw for the life of me, decency aside XD

I know my sis made mods for The Sims 3, once. And had a whole thing outta taking pretty modded-out screenshots. Then she was asked to do 'yaoi pose sets' and she turned it down even with the offer of money. Something about, "3D-modelled porn being a bridge too far." Darn shame :P

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I also remember selling custom skins for the original Sims on some mod site. I did OK on that. I think I did skins for all major characters for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Those weren't pornographic though.

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Nice! Miss me some Buffy. And probably better for your sanity that they weren't, haha!

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I also did some drawings to order of Willow Rosenberg and this weird demon with tentacles. But that was another story entirely...

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SteamGifts is probably not the best place to ask something like that, I would post on Reddit in this or related subreddits.

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Oh, I didn't know there is such a subreddit, kind of a newbie for Reddit, so I wouldn't know where to look, thanks!

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There's probably a SR for anything you need.

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If you are interested in making a very small amount of spare cash, you can be a beta tester for VMC's global beta test network and test online multiplayer games from home. I used to do it, but stopped recently when my GPU died. I don't know how they determine pay outside of the US, but here they pay hourly and basically give minimum wage for where you live. Depending on what you want to test, the hours may be very limited, but you are never required to be available, you can choose whether or not you want to participate in each test. I only tested on PC, but you can also do consoles and mobile. Also, you do not get paid immediately, there is about a 2 month delay. If you work on a regular basis, you will get regular payments after the initial delay (I think it's once a month), everything will just be a month or 2 behind.

All of this info plus more is available in their FAQ if you are interested.
https://www.vmc.com/gbtn-faq/

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Thanks a lot!

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I don't think too many indie devs are going to be able to pay a 3rd party company to test their games, so I would assume it will mostly be AAA games. Xbox, PS4, and mobile should be easier since they all run on similar equipment, but the download size will still be whatever the game requires. You can test on a low end GPU if you want as long as you can get the game running.

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There could be some smaller games, but I don't know what is out there and how big the download sizes are because I don't play many massive multiplayer games. I personally enjoy single player games more and these days I am really enjoying indie games.

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Thats actually really interesting. Thanks a lot for the information.

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microworkers won't make you rich but can help you get HB monthly if you are persistent.
If you have talents - commission sites like fiver.

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never use fiver.

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Used it years ago.
Is it cancer nowadays?

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Microworking actually would make me almost rich in my country right now, considering a full-time worker, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, gets paid around 350$ monthly before taxes.

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Oh, that's sounds nice.
I don't have enough tasks available...

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As to GDPR - doesnt matter where you are or where you're hosted, the law applies (just like trade laws) - If you serve somebody covered by the law, data collection etc has to be opt in, not opt out.

Thats the easy version. For a full version, hire a lawyer.

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So, I guess I avoid until I find -- wait, I just remembered my mom has a lawyer friend, I wonder if a local lawyer would know about it...

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probably not unless they specialise in political / international law

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Personally, just a warning, but I've heard that it's a bitch to do when it comes to taxes. As in, it's not as simple as it is when you just go to a normal job.

Not 100% sure on it, just wanted to mention it, in case it helps you in any way.

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I've been doing this all my life and I still haven't figured it out. I hinted at making a Patreon account with NSFW content in the comments on DeviantArt and so far no one has responded. So even getting the word out is hard!

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Native English speakers with decent grammar skills - you can teach English online to Chinese and Japanese students. If I were a native, I'd never work for less that $20/hr, that's not a bad salary, right?

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But I don't understand Chinese or Japanese.

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You don't have to - everything is done in English.

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Where do I do this?

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You can also try TutorABC, they are a kinda crappy company, but good if you're only starting out as a tutor, you'll get training and a discount for a TESOL certificate.

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Thank you for both!

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Keep in mind that with no experience you're gonna have to start with $10-$12 per hour, but once you get more experience you can start searching for other schools with better rates.

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Are there any of these that don't require a degree? That's the hangup I always see with these, they only accept college grads.

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I don't know, there's a bunch of opportunities. I don't think a degree is always necessary, but a certificate is. The good news is, you can get it along the way. I got my TESOL certificate during my trial period at one of those schools and it cost me about $250, but it paid off very quickly.

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Amazon Mechanical Turk, not sure if they're accepting new registrations though, and the best paying hits are US only.

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Thank you, will check into it!

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Mturk, scribe, upwork, appen

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Thanks!

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Sex cam worker.

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