I am a post-90s generation. I have a leisurely clerical job from Monday to Friday, and work as an art teacher in an extracurricular training class for two days on weekends. I also have an online part-time job designing PPT templates. I can be said to be a standard slash youth.

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As for why I choose to work part-time as a side hustle, it’s actually because I want to push myself and use limited time to create unlimited value. To put it bluntly, “I want to make more money and live a better life.”

My friends and I often communicate about how to increase income and improve living standards. When it comes to making money, we really need to open our minds and find our own strengths, values, or interests.

Everyone has the same time, but how much benefit it can produce depends on your own choice.

There are people around me who work part-time in baking studios, people who work part-time in day care schools on weekends, and people who operate WeChat public accounts on behalf of others. Everyone is within the scope of their acceptable work and plans their time reasonably.

My first side job was as an art training class teacher. I majored in art in college, but after graduation I have been working in jobs unrelated to my major, such as administrative assistant, event planning, etc.

Being an art teacher became my first "side job". It allowed me not to throw away the professional knowledge I had learned, and it also filled up my free time and brought me a good income.

Initially, a friend introduced me to an art training institution as a temporary substitute. I graduated with an art major and had a teacher qualification certificate, which met the school's requirements. The preparation I made was an art-related resume and portfolio (A4 print).

In this way, I embarked on the road of part-time art, and it has been almost 8 years now.

There are not many courses on weekends. The schedule is from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday and from 8 am to 3:30 pm on Sunday. It is completely possible to balance rest and work. It will not be very tiring, and there will be no delays in gatherings and dinners.

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I am only responsible for the teaching part and do not participate in other work content of the school. Just attending class does not feel very hard. I am more patient with children and enjoy the teaching process. I enjoy the moment when students take photos after completing their works, which can bring me a lot.

Great satisfaction.

Working in the education industry can also bring a positive label to yourself.

However, full-time art teachers in training institutions, in addition to teaching, are also involved in enrollment promotion and other work. Like other jobs, they are also complex and prone to burnout and irritability.

If you are interested in taking a part-time job as an art teacher, you can reasonably consider whether it is suitable for you based on your own situation.

The epidemic awakened my sense of crisis, so I started a second side job PPT template design. When the epidemic first hit in 2020, I spent more time at home unemployed, and began to feel a sense of crisis. I thought if I had more income, I would have more

The ability to resist risks.

I saw a blogger sharing a PPT template design. After self-assessment, I felt it was feasible, so let’s start working on it.

I believe that before you want to do anything, you need to complete a "self-assessment" to analyze your current conditions and available costs.

For PPT template design, my current conditions are "having time" and "being able to do PPT"; the cost I can pay is "having a computer".

In April 2020, I registered as the exclusive contracted designer of docer Dahuer (the exclusive share ratio is higher, and non-exclusive can be placed on other platform websites). The registration conditions at that time were looser than now, and I could choose professional qualification certificate certification.

Complete registration with your teacher qualification certificate.

The platform will be upgraded and adjusted later, please refer to the latest rules and requirements of the platform.

The overall threshold is not high, and anyone who usually uses PPT for work can try it.

Designing PPT is actually not as difficult as you think. Regarding the design and production of PPT templates, you need to understand the requirements and attributes of major platforms (Baidu Library, Daokeer, Qiantu, etc.) in advance. The originality of PPT and the commercializability of the materials are the most important.

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Regarding the PPT frame format, you can make more references on relevant template platforms, summarize platform review style preferences, and learn excellent layout concepts.

Regarding commercially available picture icon materials, the one I currently use most is “pixabay”.

The advantage is that its materials are free and commercially available, but the disadvantage is that the style is limited, and some materials require secondary creation by yourself, such as cutting out and cutting pictures, etc.

Fonts should also be chosen for free commercial use to avoid subsequent copyright disputes.

Regarding drawing software, the easiest one is to use the Meitu Xiu Xiu PC version.

You can choose the PPT template style that you are good at or interested in, such as work reports, education and teaching.

The content of the framework should be as complete as possible to facilitate users. This is also a service concept.

I chose the cartoon style. Currently, when searching for the keywords "cute" and "cartoon" on the official homepage of my template, they are all on the front page.

Regarding income, I only publish designs on the docer platform.

So far, only one template has accumulated more than 10,000 yuan in revenue.

On average, the platform deducts 10% of taxes every month, and the amount received in the account is between 1,000 and 1,300. In the off-season, it is about 700.

The off-season is during winter and summer vacations, because my template content is education and teaching report cartoon type.