There are two groups of students. The first prefers to digress from any chores in summer by hanging out with friends and entertaining themselves all the time. The second is in constant search of some new knowledge, impressions, and experience. Most of the people are somewhere in between of the scale so almost everyone has ever asked themselves a question “How could I have a break from studying and take advantages of my spare time simultaneously?”

1. Get a Job

By posting your CV on an employment portal, you are placing yourself at the first step of your career ladder. You earn not only money but also an experience, both personal and professional. Let’s navigate you through possible kinds of jobs you can get and help choose the suitable one for you:

• A Job Related to Your Area of Expertise

If you are not entirely tired of your specialization and don’t want to have a rest from it, consider vacancies relevant to your education. It will improve your skills demanded to hold a leading position in your field of study.

Besides, you will earn some money and widen your network of useful contacts. In turn, the gained experience will accelerate your education process, because you may learn a lot about the profession even before a new academic year.

• A Part Time Job You Might Enjoy

A diversity of vacancies for students allows you to select among a large number of jobs. Most of the popular variants including waiters, cashiers, couriers, salespersons, nannies, clerks, administrative assistants, etc. However, you can take an effort and search for a more extravagant job. It is quite important to find something enjoyable for you to spend your time with both pleasure and benefit.

• A Work-Study Job

The easiest way to become paid is to involve in a job without moving far away. Many universities offer their students to try their hand at various kinds of establishment maintenance. Positions such as library assistants, dorm receptionists, research study participants, campus tour guides are waiting for you.

• A Startup or Freelance Job

For those who don’t like to be governed by management, there is an incredible opportunity to setup your own little business. There is a great demand on the market of the following specializations: social media marketing, software development, graphic design, content creation as well as other IT-related jobs. You may be self-employed and work as a freelancer and establish your own prices for your services.

2. Attend Courses

Feel that you can’t catch up with the university program? Improve your abilities and fill the gaps in knowledge by taking classes dedicated to the particular subject you don’t really understand. Apart from education-related topics, you may discover the previously unknown field to broaden your horizons. You might be interested in.

• Learning New Languages

In the modern world, the success of the future path in any area of expertise has a direct relation to the number of foreign languages you use while speaking or writing. Multilingual experts are more appreciated by international companies and are decently paid for their job. Another advantage of being fluent in many languages is an opportunity to work abroad in other countries.  

• Getting into Program Corresponding to Your Hobby

It is a perfect way to become more competent in your leisure activities. Whether you keen on photography, music or woodcarving, all of these hobbies may become your lifelong pursuit and bring you some fabulous profit. Attending the classes, you increase the probability of a great outcome.

• Obtaining “Must-Have” Skills of the Modernity

From a programming to empowering others – there are a great variety of abilities which can give you a privilege while applying for a job in the future. Two summer months are enough to get acquainted with a new activity and master its basics.

3. Travel

Try to go somewhere else: it is always a kind of a challenge. As a result, you will get fabulous impressions and know more about how people live in another city, country or a continent. If you deem you face the lack of finance to provide you with a high-grade trip, you might be interested in more affordable methods of traveling. Here are some opportunities you should take into account:

• Volunteering: helping others on such conditions means that you will be provided with accommodation and food, but will not be paid. The costs you need are only for the transportation and for the leisure;
• Hitchhiking: Catch a car which is going in the same direction and have a free ride. Notice that drivers from some countries mostly accept additional passengers, while in other places it is not common at all. Also, you should be careful getting in a car of the stranger and do not travel alone;
• Couchsurfing: this well-known service allows you to find locals who are ready to accommodate you in their place. Your stay with hosts is free of charge;
• Help people around the house: some families invite helpers from all over the world to assist them in the household. Especially, it is a popular practice among farmers and herders who can’t cope with all their responsibilities in high seasons. Such “employment” isn’t time-consuming and resembles part-time job: you promise to dedicate up to 4-5 hours per day.

4. Set and Complete Challenges

Turn your life into a thrilling game. Get out from your comfort zone and try to do the things that seemed unreal before: climb the mountain, run a marathon or develop healthy habits. Or if it is too boring for you, plug your imagination in and create a to-do list with the most incredible things you always wanted to do but couldn’t dare.

Spend hours of your summer holidays wisely: time flies fast and the new semester will start before you realize it. Apart from useful activities, don’t forget about relaxation and recuperation that are so necessary for getting prepared for the tense academic year.