elance.com - Try Your Hand at Being a Freelancer

Whether you are currently looking for a job, or wanting to try applying your skills and earn money at the same time, elance is a great resource for landing interesting individual projects. It is intended as a project bid site for freelancers, where jobs are posted and users with provider profiles can compete for them by submitting proposals. Project areas of particular interest may include web & programming, writing & translation, and also design & multimedia.

As a TEC-CH student or graduate, the website is useful as it lists many projects that utilize the technical skills that you may have learned from the programme. Some are even highly relevant to cultural heritage, so in helping out at these projects you may accumulate more hands-on experience and meet more people in the field. The projects also tend to be one-off so likely they would not be too much of a burden to your existing workload. Plus, let's be honest, extra pocket money is always nice.