There’s no better or easier time to entertain friends than summer—but it still takes some effort!  Make your upcoming summer party a snap by hiring local college students to help in the following ways:

Backyard clean-up.    Hire college students to cut the grass, clean out flower beds, lay down mulch, and make your backyard shine!

Costco run.  Need lots of food for your party?  Send a QuadJobber to stock up on everything you need.

Food prep.  Hire a college student to help put a feast together for your guests — and clean up the kitchen!

Watching kids.  Babysitting and childcare are the most popular jobs on the QuadJobs platform, so it’s easy to find energetic, responsible college students to supervise children at your party.

… Especially if there is a pool.   Post for a certified lifeguard and all the parents will thank you for keeping their children safer!

Bartend and serve food.  A friendly QuadJobber can make sure your guests are well taken care of.

Taking photos.  Ask a QuadJobber to snap some great photos during your party so that you can just have fun!

Clean up.  When your last guest has gone, and it’s time to put the place back together, you’ll appreciate having a hardworking college student to clean up.

QuadJobs is an online platform connecting college and graduate students to local jobs.  From Saturday night babysitting to moving a couch to helping a local business during a busy time, students find flexible jobs that fit into whatever free time they have. By streamlining the employment connection between campus and community, QuadJobs unlocks jobs particularly well-suited for students’ busy, often changing schedules.  The platform tracks every job a student takes and gathers performance reviews.  Small jobs matter—they help a student network, earn income, and build a track record of work experience.  Local employers can hire with efficiency and confidence.

By the time the weekend rolls around, you need a break.  You’ve been working hard all week, and now the sun is shining and you want to hit the park for a run.  Or, it’s pouring rain and you want to veg out and watch TV.  So what happens to that To Do list of projects you want to get done during your off hours?  Nothing—and researchers say that knowing that we’re putting off tasks can diminish our sense of wellbeing and make it harder to relax.

In other words:  You’ll enjoy your weekend more if you get more done.

With this in mind, I made a fresh list of house projects and put QuadJobs to work.  First, I’ve been wanting to clean out our garage, replacing out-of-season items (sleds, skates, and shovels) with in-season ones (gardening tools, shovels and pails, and beach chairs).  I’d been meaning to get air in all the bike tires, tidy up the work bench, and give the garage a good sweep after all the mud and grime that had been tracked in this past winter.

Second on my list:  Bringing all the patio furniture out of the basement or shed and back on the patio!  What a pain—no wonder I kept putting it off.  I also wanted to take the covers off all the patio chairs and give them a quick wash.

Third:  My kids had outgrown a lot of the clothes they’d worn the previous winter, and I had several bags of hand-me-downs that had been lingering for GoodWill for several weeks.

Lastly, I’d quit the photo album game circa 2012, which meant that we had not a single photo of our youngest two children in albums.  This, apparently, bums them out.  I’d been talking about getting the albums up to date for months, and even had printed out photos for each year.  Couldn’t seem to find time to get those photos in the albums.

I posted on QuadJobs for two students, 3 hours each, on two consecutive weekends.  I figured that even the most energetic college student would run out of steam after dealing with our stuff for 3 hours.  Two Saturday mornings in a row, my husband and I took turns getting these jobs done.  Mainly, we gave directions to the hardworking college students we hired — and they did the heavy lifting.  To our amazement, by the end of the second Saturday, ALL of these tasks were complete.

Working together:

Garage 1.5 hours

Bike tires:  20 minutes (15 minutes spent finding pump)

Patio furniture:  1 hour

Cushions:  30 minutes to put back on after washing

GoodWill run:  30 minutes

Photo albums 2012-2019:  2.5 hours

6 hours of work later, we felt totally refreshed and our To Do list felt really under control.  So worth the investment!  The college students we hired kept us on task and made it impossible to put these jobs off.  Best of all, they made the work much faster.

Stop procrastinating and get your list done with QuadJobs!

QuadJobs is an online platform connecting college and graduate students to local jobs.  From Saturday night babysitting to moving a couch to helping a local business during a busy time, students find flexible jobs that fit into whatever free time they have. By streamlining the employment connection between campus and community, QuadJobs unlocks jobs particularly well-suited for students’ busy, often changing schedules.  The platform tracks every job a student takes and gathers performance reviews.  Small jobs matter—they help a student network, earn income, and build a track record of work experience.  Local employers can hire with efficiency and confidence.

Summer jobs for college students are important.  With more available hours, you can make income that helps pay the bills all year long.  And it’s a great time to explore your area of professional interest, learning about the possibilities and making great connections.  Sometimes these two important goals are at odds—the job waiting tables pays well, but will it advance your chances of landing a job in marketing when you graduate?  The internship with a local graphic designer may help you learn some skills and build your resume, but you’re not being paid much.

One of the best parts about QuadJobs (if we do say so ourselves!) is that we help college students looking for summer work strike the perfect balance.  You’ll find pre-professional jobs that can help you get a foot in the door.  We also have so many flexible, lucrative summer job opportunities that can fit into whatever hours you’re available to work.  So do both!

Here are some of the summer jobs to keep in mind if you’re looking to supplement your summer income with flexible, part-time work:

Tutoring:  A hot post right now.  Many parents are looking for college tutors to help their kids in various ways of the long summer break.  Tutoring tends to pay well and can be fit into an already busy schedule.

Babysitting:  A mainstay job on the QuadJobs platform, babysitting not only pays well (think $15-20/ hour), it also can be incredibly fun—especially during the summer months, when you may be asked to take kids to the playground or the pool.  Or just have a blast in the backyard sprinkler!

Party help:  Are you the life of the party?  Well, that’s a great way to make money this summer.   Look for job posts to help serve food and drinks, set up and clean up, or keep kids’ entertained and safe.  These gigs are a lot of fun and tend to pay well.

The jobs are there for the taking — so update your profile and get to applying!

QuadJobs is an online platform connecting college and graduate students to local jobs.  From Saturday night babysitting to moving a couch to helping a local business during a busy time, students find flexible jobs that fit into whatever free time they have. By streamlining the employment connection between campus and community, QuadJobs unlocks jobs particularly well-suited for students’ busy, often changing schedules.  The platform tracks every job a student takes and gathers performance reviews.  Small jobs matter—they help a student network, earn income, and build a track record of work experience.  Local employers can hire with efficiency and confidence.