2) Administrative / Personal Assistant (on- or off-campus)

Average Hourly Pay: $19.57

The work may not sound glamorous, but administrative assistants have some of the highest-paid hourly jobs out there. Execs and entrepreneurs frequently pay good money for reliable, trustworthy part-time talent to help them with their busy lives. As a personal assistant, you’ll need to be flexible, accommodating, and ready for anything: You might be in an office, making travel arrangements, helping with paperwork, or you might be out and about, running errands, dropping off dry-cleaning, picking up lunch, and pet-sitting.

On campus, deans and department heads often need an executive or administrative assistant to help with preparing reports, scheduling meetings, arranging conference calls, and various clerical and reception duties. Look for admin job listings at your school’s career center, in you campus paper classifieds, and on job sites like Craigslist, CareerBuilder, and Monster.