And, also, how to give a real job on Second Life to a real person if you live in a 1st world country.
The reason why it might be difficult to find a real job on Second Life even if a few Linden Dollars, to you, would make an actual difference to your finances, is that someone from the 1st world country feels guilty for making someone work for such a small amount of money, they would never ask anyone to. If someone living in a 1st world country knew that 1000 Lindens will feed a flesh-and-blood family in Nigeria for more than a couple of days – richly, I might add- you might not hesitate to ask someone used to work hard leighbor for a dollar a day to work for you for an hour or two at their convenience.
If you happen to be lucky enough to own a laptop with internet access
There are a TON OF job opportunities on Second Life with regular people who can’t afford to pay another person from a 1st World country in any way that would make a difference to that person, but they could make a HUGE difference to your life and would LOVE the opportunity to do so. They are unlikely to have even thought to offer a job for the amounts of money they can comfortably pay, but if they knew what a difference it would make…
What you should do is to start contacting sim owners and telling them you are looking for a real job for yourself, you come from *your country*, and how much money you need to make in a week to reach your goals. Send them over to a YouTube video that accurately describes how much you can buy with that amount of money in your country and tell them what you can do.
What you could potentially do
Camping and entertaining visitors – driving up the perceived traffic count on a sim by simply staying on for several hours a day and replying to IM’s people send you. There’s a possibility of you to keep working at another job at the same time as keeping your eye on your IM’s.
Maybe you could even inform the visitors of what the sim is there for, and work in customer service, but that’s another payment bracket.
Camping – you’d get paid maybe 60 Lindens an hour (see the currency converter in the sidebar to see how much that would be in your local currency).
Entertaining guests – 500-800 Lindens an hour? More?
Customer service… More, but I don’t have a clue how much more.
Paid party guest
Nobody wants to stay at a party or event with nobody else there. Paid party guests should stay on the sim at the start of an event so that whoever teleports in (and potentially pays tips to the DJ, host, and the sim owner later) doesn’t feel instantly compelled to leave at the sight of “nobody’s here.”
Paid party guests could probably make 50 to 100 Lindens per party, but it may only take you 10 or 15 minutes at the start of the event. (If nobody’s coming anyway, they probably need to work on their party pitch and advertising rather than fill their sim with paid guests.)
You could potentially earn more money by keeping the local chat going, by talking to everyone there and keeping the mood high – without letting everyone know you’re paid to do it the same as the host is.
DJing and Hosting
Can you put up a party? One of the most popular jobs on Second Life is that of a DJ and a party host. Although these jobs are popular, there are always places looking for good, fun DJ’s and hosts to entertain their guests.
A DJ plays the music, and the host keeps talking to the guests on Local Chat to keep everyone on a happy mood and entertained.
Promotion
A Second Life business owner might be well interested in having you promote their product or service to people you talk to on Second Life or even online. They might set up an affiliate link for you, which means every time a person who you told them about the company will pay for their products, you will get a share of that payment… Potentially for as long as the company operates.
If you own even a little bit of land and know how to get people to visit it
There are several affiliate programs on Second Life already, which means that you sell THEIR PRODUCT for them, by simply rezzing their vendors on your land and watching the Lindens pour in.
There are a few popular affiliate marketers around, but you can check them out on the Marketplace. Some of them are free – you grab their vendors and you’re set – some of them want to ensure you’re actively promoting their products and want to vet you before they hire you, but nonetheless, check out some affiliate opportunities here.
Creating Things for the Marketplace
Creating an account for Second Life is free, and using a public sandbox on Second Life is free. Selling your items on the Marketplace is free, too.
Now, this way of making money requires both talent and skill, but it is free to get started and won’t cost a ton of money to keep going and expanding, either. If a person living in a first world country can make a living this way, then so can you, if you have the talent and skills to do it.
How to give a job to someone who needs it?
Have you ever wondered why someone would bother scamming people for 100 or 250 Lindens at a time, pretending to be a newbie? This is why. (Do you want to move to Nigeria now? Yeah. Me too.) So the next time someone hits you up for a few Lindens, maybe ask them if they want a regular job instead.
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