11 Side Business Ideas for Teachers

The teaching profession is one flexible work which give teachers additional time to do other works. Mostly, schools in Ghana closes at 3pm. A teacher can therefore use the hours left in the day to engage in other profitable businesses to earn extra income. The weekends, holidays, and even vacations are days teachers can use to gain extra income.

The following are some examples of other side businesses that teachers can engage in:

1. Private Home Tutoring: Teachers can teach students after school, on weekends and even during vacations. Currently, parents seek the services of teachers to teach their children at home. This will add something extra to your income. In addition, you can organize paid BECE, WASSCE, or entrance-exam classes.

2. Online Tutoring: You can organize online classes for students. Platforms such as  Zoom, Google Meet, or social media are available for you to provide such services at a fee. The best part is, these platforms allow you to use them freely.

3. Educational YouTube Channel: Create lessons, study tips, and educational content and upload them on YouTube. Encourage your learners to visit the channel to watch your videos to better understand what you taught in the classroom.

4. Selling Digital Study Materials: You can sell revision notes, worksheets, quizzes, and study guides online.

5. Printing and Photocopying:  Have a printing press and provide services such as printing, scanning, photocopying, binding services. You can also provide typing and document services by typing assignments, Curriculum Vitaes, letters, reports, and other documents.

6. Educational Book Reselling: You can sell textbooks, workbooks, past questions, and stationery to students. These are basic needs of students.

7. Catering/Food Business: Use the extra hours to prepare snacks, pastries or drinks such as “sobolo” for sale. Baking of bread, cakes and pies are also lucrative.

8. Agribusiness: Engage in agriculture. You can engage in poultry farming, snail and, mushroom farming, ginger, tomatoes, Cabbage, and carrot farming.

9. Fashion and Sewing: Sew clothes, uniforms, bags, or children’s outfits to the people in your community.

10. Photography/Videography: Cover birthdays, graduations, school events, and church programs. These events can be done during vacations, holidays and mostly during weekends.

11. Transportation businesses: Using your vehicle for commercial purposes will also give you some extra income. You can do this business after school during weekdays and practice it full day during weekends, holidays, and vacations.

These business ideas can be done without interfering contact hours. Most can be done outside school hours or days. Therefore, to gain extra income, teachers can consider these ideas.

However, let’s keep the conversation going, you can drop your ideas in the comment box.