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True confession: Back when I was in college, I quickly discovered that most part time jobs paid crappy wages and required long, often inconvenient, hours.
However, I did understand that almost any college, even a state university, had a subset of rich kids who would pay well to have their research papers set up for them.
So, early in the semester, while these kids were partying, I would be hitting the library, which was practically empty, and filling out a few hundred index cards with source information and interesting facts on various topics without knowing even what paper topics would be assigned.
In those days, the profs looked for good evidence of research (footnotes and bibliography) and there was ALWAYS a way to work 20 or so of my 200+ index cards into a paper on nearly ANY topic.
Plus, I knew how to organize and write almost in formula fashion.
The rich kids who called on me early would get charged a very reasonable rate of $15 or $20 per hour which would ratchet up to $40 per hour if they waited the week before the papers were due. My own papers, of course, were already done by that time. And I could clear $300 or more in the week before the papers came due.
Not bad money back in the early 1980's when tuition was $3000 or less per semester at state universities west of the Mississippi. No client of mine ever got lower than a B+ either because the profs loved my many footnotes and long bibliographies.