Fifteen year olds need money for different reasons but most need it to buy clothes, go on dates, help  their parents, get ready for driving, and other things that all teenagers do. A job is what will bring in this extra money that so many teens need.

Since jobs are so hard to find, it might be time to create your own job if you can’t find one of your own. What do I mean by “create” a job? If you want to do some babysitting then print some fliers and put them on grocery store bulletin boards and attach them to people’s door knobs on their homes. If you want to clean houses or do yard work for people do the same thing with the fliers.

You may have services you can provide like pet walking, pet sitting, car washing, painting, and any other thing you might be able to do to make money. All you need are the clients and you will be in business. Now is the time to figure out ways to find people in your neighborhood who need things done. The more creative you are and the more outgoing you become, the better your chances of finding people who might be willing to pay you.

If you like babysitting, then network yourself all over and try to find some families close by who need a good babysitter. If you do a good job, remember to tell them to spread the word around and tell their friends. You should make sure you take every opportunity to make friends and get the word out that you are available to babysit, pet sit, weed, mow lawns, or whatever. In other words, now is that time to go out there and make you own job.

If you are a computer geek or nerd or whatever, try to find people who need computer help. If you are good on the Internet, you can probably find someone online that needs help. If you are a good writer, there are ways to finding freelance writing jobs online. The Internet is the great connector of people and you might be able to create you own job online?

If you can write you can also start a blog and try to make money blogging and Internet marketing. I will post more on this in an upcoming post but there is good money to be made online for all you teens who are good with computers.

Jobs for 15 year olds are going to be hard to find for a long time now that the economy is really bad. If you want to make money, now is the time to sit down and figure out other ways to do it. You might ask your parents if they have any ideas you can do to bring in some extra money and how you should go about getting it all started. Good luck!

So, what does a fifteen year old do who wants to start making extra money to help the family or for personal things like dating, nice clothes, or video games? The one option that is always available is to start some sort of small business for yourself. Listed below are some of the top good job ideas for 15 year olds of things they can do on their own to start making money:

An online business

This is the #1 idea with the most potential. If you are fifteen, that means you probably can’t remember a time where there wasn’t computers and the Internet. You have grown up using computers and you might be very good with them. There are many ways to make money online and this is something you can do from your home with little to no start up costs.

You might have taken classes showing you how to create web pages, set up blogs, and any number of other things online. Making money on the Internet is only limited by your imagination and you have probably read stories of kids starting up some business online and becoming very successful.

As an example, you might read this blog about lead generation and online surveys for money that will explain to you how to get leads (and money for those leads) for a site called CashCrate. It is all done by setting up blogs (which are free) and learning how to get visitors to those blogs and having them sign up under your referral link. This is just one of the many ways you can learn how to make money online and if you are an inventive teen, you can probably think of many other ways.

A computer tutor or website development service

Along the same lines as the online business, you can make money by teaching others how to use a computer and even creating web sites for them. Adults are notorious for needing computer help ranging  from setting things up to learning how to use their personal computers. Many adults who don’t use computers at their job want to learn how to do things online and need all kinds of help that you might be able to provide.

Setting up and designing blogs and websites for this type of person is a service you might be able to make good money at and you can even get clients from around the world if you know how. You might start out at some computer forums and get ideas that way of what types of needs are out there.

A pet walking and pet sitting service

This is something that any 15 year old can do and you might be suprised at the demand. People go on vacation all the time and need their pets taken care of and walked. You might be able to save them money from sending their pets to a kennel by providing this type of service. Additionally, you don’t need people to go on vacation to make money as you can offer to walk their pets everyday for a small fee. Adults are busy with work and kids which means they don’t have enough time to devote to walking their dogs. This is where you come in and this type of service can be both fun and successful.  

A school tutoring service

If you are good at math, science, or some other school subject, you can try to find other students that need help. By tutoring other students you will not only make money but you will also get the satisfaction of helping others. This is something the “smart” kids have been doing for generations and you can make money doing it too.

A yard maintenance service

Kids have been making money forever by doing such things as weeding, mowing lawns, watering, raking leaves, and shoveling snow. Scout out all your neighbors and find out if they have any yard chores they would be willing to pay you to do. Once you show then that you do a good job, they will be willing to hire you on an on-going basis.

A painting service

This is a something that is best for the summer but it can be done year round too if you are good at it. Painting and outside home maintenance is an area that any “do it yourselfer” teen can make money at if they can find the clients. If you know how to paint, fix things, and do other maintenance type work, you can go out looking for people who need this sort of thing done. Once you establish yourself as a hard worker who does a good job, it will be easier to get your neighbors to hire you as word of mouth will help you get jobs. 

A babysitting service

Responsible teens have always made money babysitting and the better and more likeable you are, the more the word will spread making it easier it is to get work. This is one of the best jobs for fifteen year olds.

A cleaning service

People need maids and often hire professional ones to clean their houses. If cleaning is something you don’t mind doing, you might be able to get work around your neighborhood bycharging less than the professional services do. As with all jobs like this, you will need to be reliable, show up on time, and do a very good job. You will be competing with services that do this for a living but if you show that you can do the same job as they do for less money, it will be easy for you to get and keep clients.

A cooking / catering service

If you enjoy cooking and baking, you might be able to start a service where you prepare home cooked meals or some other variation of this. Many families now have both the mother and father out of the house all day working at a full time job. This leaves very little time for them to cook and eat good nutritious food which is a service you can provide.