Coping with financial stress in school

However, there are various ways to cope in school  without   financial support from anyone. One must not be involved in negative acts to sail through school financially. Students can be engaged in businesses like printing and scanning or selling snacks.  You can buy a printer (three in one  printers) and be printing and scanning for […]

However, there are various ways to cope in school  without   financial support from anyone. One must not be involved in negative acts to sail through school financially.
Students can be engaged in businesses like printing and scanning or selling snacks.  You can buy a printer (three in one  printers) and be printing and scanning for students, especially final year students, and at a lower rate compared to those  doing it fully as a business. You will earn some money.
A poor student can also sell snacks like gala by buying directly from the company, and selling within the campus and hostels.
In addition , you can also be selling bread. Just look for a bakery, which produces nice bread and already has name, offer to be one of their distributors and start selling within the campus and the hostel, suffice to say everyone eats bread.
Another business a student can engage in is sewing or tailoring. A student from UNIMAID once shared how he coped in school with tailoring. He was from a poor background and was desperate to go further in his studies. He started sewing clothes on campus.
He took the sewing machine which his father had before he died and started by mending clothes for students before he got into professional fashion designing.
When he sewed a particular style, he advertises it on campus by wearing it himself. When his colleagues asked him where he bought such nice clothes, he simply told them he sewed it and could make more for them.
This did not ruin his studies. He scheduled his time for business and studies. He knew that as a student, he had to struggle to make it.
Students should therefore lay their hands on something today and go to  school without giving excuses or being involved in cultism, prostitution and other vices.  Be wise!
 Gunda wrote from the Department of Mass Communication, University of Maiduguri.