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title: '7 Ways I Made Money as a Student (From High School to University)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGN07czP_E8'
video_id: 'WGN07czP_E8'
date: 2026-08-14
duration_sec: 831
channel: 'Shane Huang'
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# 7 Ways I Made Money as a Student (From High School to University)

> Source: [7 Ways I Made Money as a Student (From High School to University)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WGN07czP_E8)

## Summary

This video outlines six practical money-making strategies the creator used from high school through university, emphasizing consistent, low-risk methods over speculative ventures. The strategies range from selling used items and leveraging knowledge of niche products to scholarships, sales jobs, tutoring, content creation, and arbitrage sports betting.

### Key Points

- **Introduction: Consistent Money-Making Strategies** [00:00] — The video focuses on reliable strategies for making money consistently during high school, after graduation, and in early university years, excluding luck-based methods like crypto or penny stocks.
- **Strategy 1: Selling Unwanted Items** [00:16] — At age 13-14, the creator sold old Nerf guns on Gumtree/eBay, making a few hundred dollars to fund a new laptop and Legos.
- **Strategy 2: Selling Products You Understand Well** [01:12] — The creator built custom Lego models (e.g., a Tiger 1 tank) and sold them on Bricklink, with the highest sale being $300 for a WWII German Tiger Tank shipped to the US. Later, he bought Yu-Gi-Oh cards in bulk ($700-$800 per 1000 cards) and sold them in lots of 100 for $13-$15, earning $6-$8 profit per pack, eventually making a couple thousand dollars.
- **Strategy 3: Applying for Scholarships** [03:09] — The creator applied for university scholarships, focusing on academic ones. He secured a $10K and a $6K scholarship per year for five years, totaling $80,000, by meeting requirements and maintaining good grades.
- **Strategy 4: Working in Sales (Vodafone)** [04:31] — In his second year of university, he worked at Vodafone Australia, earning about $700 per week (including commission) for 15-25 hours of work. He recommends sales over hospitality for better pay, skill development, and career value.
- **Strategy 5: Tutoring** [06:20] — Started tutoring in year 10 at $20/hour, later increasing to $50/hour. University tutoring can pay $50-$150/hour. He notes that private tutoring pays better than tutoring centers.
- **Strategy 6: YouTube Channel** [08:59] — The creator runs a YouTube channel focused on educational content (study tips, university life, money-making). He earns $400-$500/month from AdSense, which covers living expenses, and reinvests earnings into equipment.
- **Strategy 7: Arbitrage Sports Betting** [11:10] — The creator uses positive expected value (arbitrage) sports betting, which he describes as purely mathematical and low-risk. He spends 4-5 hours weekly and makes about $1,000/week, totaling over $15,000 so far, using bookmakers like Forster and Tubb.
- **Conclusion: Total Earnings** [13:15] — Combining all strategies, the creator has made over $100,000 from age 14 to 21, allowing him to live comfortably without financial stress.

### Conclusion

The video presents a series of practical, low-risk income streams that can be built over time, emphasizing knowledge, consistency, and leveraging personal skills. The creator's total earnings of over $100,000 demonstrate the cumulative impact of these strategies.

## Transcript

I'm not talking about getting lucky with crypto or some penny stock investments that somehow miraculously went to the moon or gambling and hoping for the best. Instead, I'm talking about solid and reliable strategies that will help you make some money
consistently in the years during high school and after you graduate and in the first few years of your university degrees. So the first thing that I did was all the way back in high school when I was through I was 13 or 14 years old and that was just selling stuff that I didn't want and didn't
really need. So what I did was, firstly, I had some old Nerf guns that I wanted to just have no use for, like I'd grown out of it, and I wanted to put that money into other things.
I think at the time I wanted to buy a new laptop and I think I wanted to buy Legos at the time. Yes, I was still into Legos when I was 14, but you can see the video right here. So because I needed money for that, I had to sell my milk gun.
So what I did was, on Gumfool or eBay, I'd list them and pretty much that made me, from my old toy that I had, I got rid of those and that made me about a few hundred bucks. So after that, even with that amount of money, I still didn't get enough of leggers and I
wanted to buy even more. So what I did then was, with the leggers that I did have, I transformed some of them into custom designed models that I personally made. for example a Tiger 1 tank and what I did with that was I built that and modelled that
and then put that up on Hideo and a lot of people actually paid good money for it so I made a few of those tanks, my highest one was a Lego WWII German Tiger Tank that sold for $300 and was shipped to the US and yeah so a few more Hunter cars came in from that
and I really liked toys back then so I really liked Yu-Gi-Oh cards after and what I did was I would buy Ugo cards in bulk from the supplier on eBay and then for 1000 cards I
could get that for $700 to $800. Then I would sell those for about $13 to $15 so I make it up in bulk of $100 so 10 lots of $15 from a $70 investment I could get about $6 to $8
from each pack of 100 cards depending on shipping and what price I listed it at. So I did that for a while and eventually like because I became a bit of an expert in cards I knew which cards were
for more money and I'd sell those individually um and in the end I think from that I made a couple thousand dollars just from yugo cards and that pretty much helped me pay for all my expenses that I kind of wanted as a teenager when we didn't really get much allowance from our parents so
so pretty much the main tip for that is it's basically a product that you know well and are interested in so for me firstly it was the Nerf guns then it was the legos that I could design and developed and then there was the yu-gi-oh cards which I knew what cards were good and I had more
market research and knowledge of so I knew that I was paying the right price for right cards and selling them for the right prices as well. So those are the first two points firstly selling old products that you don't have any use for and the second one is selling one product that you
understand well so firstly all the old toys I didn't want and then secondly with the legos and and then the Yu-Gi-Oh cards I really understood well. The next way I made money was right after my high school graduation so actually a bit before that So what I would do was I would apply for all these scholarship programs and university scholarships that were available kind of out there And so what this requires is you to know early on what you need
based on market research and checking all the universities and seeing what scholarships are actually on offer and what requirements you need to sign for that. So some of them might be academic requirements.
Some of them might be extracurricular or work-related. Most of them, there's also some equity scholarships, which if you're eligible for, those are pretty easy to get, as long as you satisfy those requirements.
Whereas there's also academic ones, which are the ones that I focus on and I knew I could try and achieve. So from that application and actually working towards those goals, just like from academics in school, I managed to get a 10K one and a 6K one each year.
So in total, that was 16K, and it was given to me for a duration of five years. So in total it was 16 times 5, so $80,000 just from a couple of applications and then making sure I did well in my grades and asked to achieve those scholarships.
The fourth thing that I did was somewhat into my uni journey. So I think in my second year, what I did was I actually started a sales job at Vodafone Australia. Why I choose sales over hospitality is, firstly, the pay is slightly better because you do have your commission on top of your regular salary and wage, if you do well, and that's a good incentive for you to hit your commission targets.
And also, it's not really that many hours for the workload that you put in. So I remember back at Verve Fund, I was working only like 15 to 20 hours, 25 hours maximum each week. So three to four days, reasonable hours, like maximum six to eight hours.
And then I'd leave that on the dot at eight hours. And then also a lot of the time was just like customer interaction or like waiting to have customers come to the store. And you can just talk to your colleagues.
There wasn't really much work to do a lot of the time. So that was like, wasn't very stressful at all. And in terms of numbers, what I could get out of it was on average $700 a week just from working three or four shifts.
And that includes my commission as well, which was not very difficult to hit as long as you put in some amount of effort. And then also for most people as well, everyone helps each other with their sales target.
So in total, that was about $600 per week on base salary and then $100 per week for commission as a part-timer. Not only this, why I recommend it to being better over hospitality is firstly, I think that sales experience is a lot more valued later on when you're working in a corporate job or trying to drop the corporate ladder in your career.
So being able to sell and more importantly, be able to sell yourself and your own skills and confidence, that is a very important skill and it can be easily developed through working at a sales role. For example, what I did at Vodafone.
So in addition to working in sales, later on in your life you can also work on paid internships. So as you develop more and more skills in university and from your work experience starting off in sales, then you can do some paid internships.
For example, I've done a few of those, either working in a fintech startup or like a kind of quantitative trading internship role. And that has made me a bit of a go like to the save.no on the bank account.
And yeah, I've just made a bit from that, but all of it now is like sucked into stock. so I don really know much about it The fifth thing that I actually tried was tutoring and it is kind of common practice especially with students from my school A lot of people do tutoring as their kind of like first job So I actually started a lot earlier than most
people. I started tutoring in year 10 when I was still in high school and that was based off my marks that I was getting and I was only charging very little like $20 per hour and a lot of time I'd go overtime so I was only like really
charging 10 to 15 dollars an hour but still like that was kind of the first work that I did and like I valued how to make money and like how much hard work you have to put in but later on like you
can easily charge a lot higher rates um by the end of it I think I was getting to like 50 dollars an hour but I know a lot of like my peers are charging like well over 100 now just because they have so much experience and like there's so much demand from like good reviews from other students and
like it really really grows like from a base like gets higher higher really quickly because not only are you getting more students based on word of mouth and like people recommending you but also you can charge a lot more because everyone knows now that you're a really good
teacher based on the results that you're getting for your students and all the experiences that you have so there's two parts to going down in tutoring there's tutoring high school students which is just private one-on-one tutoring you can work for a tutoring center but those generally
don't pay as well as privately and there's a lot more red tape and paperwork involved with that. Or the alternative is tutoring in university. I have a few mates doing this as well. The highest I know is being paid at a rate of $150 per hour, but most of it
is between $50 to $100 and that includes class time and marking and prep time as well. So you are fairly compensated when you're tutoring in university. It's a pretty good job. for the hourly rate and it's very relevant to what you're learning as well because you don't have as
much like you pretty much learn the content and you're kind of just like revising it in some way and like sharing it with other students who like kind of need that help so that was just pretty much something I've tried but like now really I don't do that anymore so right now my few focuses
are now first thing number six which is this method is my youtube channel and what I think is value adding content. So what I like to do now is make videos on educational content.
So a lot of my videos are study tips and tricks as well as like some university life blogs and some money making tips. So I hope that this can add value to people's lives by informing them
and giving them information that they weren't aware of previously and can help them in their lives some way. So even though like I don't charge for this to directly to the customer, like there's an indirect benefit to me
which is in the terms of YouTube ad revenue. So that, for me, isn't too much, but, like, it's, like, $20 a day or, like, $15 a day, and all that gets, like, reinvested into the YouTube channel,
which is, like, for example, the camera you're watching on now, the microphone you're watching on now, and all the editing software and, like, all the equipment that I kind of use, like the lights and all that stuff. Like, it's come a long way since my first video,
which was, like, just filmed on my mom's iPhone 7, because I didn't even have a proper phone at the time. But that has made me a few thousand dollars. But right now, that's not the focus of the YouTube channel.
The focus of the YouTube channel is more about growth rather than monetizing right now. So you probably know that I don do any sponsorships at the moment because well firstly there no sponsorships that I really am passionate about and I can see that I value to my viewers So in total from YouTube I do make about from just AdSense even though I don go I don put ads on most of my videos or like I take the ads away from the middle and only put out the front or only start them at the end or something like that
I still make about $400 to $500 a month on YouTube and that is pretty enough to pay for all my living expenses for the month. So unless I make any big large purchases, that is enough to cover for my food, my transport
and any basic bills that I have to cover. So now onto my last and final strategy that I use to make money and I'm quite sure 99.9% of you have not heard of this ever before and that is because it is very lucrative and kind of a secret topic.
It's not very well known. and that is positive easy or arbitrage sports betting so before any of you like tell me off for like saying oh you're just gambling now like how is this making money just like putting your
money and then gambling it away and hoping that oh you somehow win in the end but no like because i keep betting keep betting and i bet so many times all my luck is pretty much like phased out there's no more luck involved at all you have good luck sometimes you have bad luck sometimes and
all balances out pretty much perfectly. So because arbitrage betting or positive and easy betting is based on purely mathematical strategy, you can pretty much guarantee yourself a profit in the end from these sports betting bookmakers.
What I do from this is each week, I spend about four to five hours, sometimes less now because I've become more used to it, on just finding these opportunities and betting on them. So from this, what I've made is,
you can expect to make like $1,000 a week in total. And that is just like if you use two or three of these bookmakers, what I use is Forster and Tubb. And in total, overall, I've made over now $15,000 from this strategy.
And it's still growing, even though like I've been banned on a few platforms because I have made a bit. But because of that, there's like so many bookmakers you can use or like make money off of. So even though like, yeah, it will eventually run out at the end, like it's so far been quite sufficient to like satisfy me.
And just like a few hours each week, you can pretty much expect to make like at least a thousand dollars. Honestly, like even if you're having a really, really bad day, I've still never had a losing week. So your risk is pretty much like there's no risk to it at all.
But don't take my word for it. And like if you want to do it, you will have to do your own research because it is a very like hard thing to understand at first. And like you do need to be able to understand it very well. And there can be a lot of mistakes you make at the beginning.
So if you want to have a start and think of what it is, then check out my previous video here, which I'll link, and you can take a look at what our charge betting kind of is. It's pretty much all purely based on mathematics, so if you think math is not useful, maybe
think again. So those are all the different ways that I've used to make money from when I was starting off as a teenager all the way to 21, which is the age I'm now, and I've made over 100k from all these total in combined.
So that has pretty much allowed me to live somewhat comfortably and not have to worry too much about my personal finances or much of that money kind of issues going forward. If you enjoyed this video then make sure to give it a big thumbs up and subscribe to this
channel to not miss out on my future content where I give more money making tips and educational content. As always take care and I hope to see you guys in the next video.