A student who started teaching offline — and built an online income when COVID changed everything.

When I started looking for ways to earn independently, I was a student myself. I had been teaching Mathematics, Physics, and Python to learners offline — in person, the traditional way. But when COVID hit and the world went into lockdown, that door closed overnight.

I knew I wanted to continue teaching. It was the one thing I was genuinely good at and deeply passionate about. But I had no clear roadmap for moving online. I didn’t know which platform to trust, how to price my sessions, or how to find my first student in a space I’d never navigated before.

I registered on UrbanPro and waited. My first student was Gurjot Singh — a Master’s student who needed help with Physics. I was nervous and excited in equal measure. But there was one problem: I didn’t own a pen tablet, which made teaching an equation-heavy subject online feel almost impossible.

Gurjot was incredibly patient and cooperative. Together, we found a workaround — I used a mobile app called MyViewBoard Whiteboard on my phone, and we made it work. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a start. That first session taught me something important: resourcefulness matters more than perfect tools.

In my first three months on UrbanPro, I had just one student. One. But I kept showing up, kept refining my profile, and kept reaching out. The momentum built slowly — and then it built fast.