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Note: This article cannot cover every job or type of job available in Second Life. As is true in real life, the variety of employment you can find is potentially vast and unknowable.

This all adds to the reasons why Second Life is probably the best known of all virtual world games where you can make real money. Pros Some of the advantages you might get from playing virtual world games include the entertainment value, the potential for learning and development, the chance to sample new experiences, and the social aspect. “Second Life is like the internet,” offers Pires. “If you go into that world there are endless opportunities. In Second Life, it’s easier to do sex than to study engineering, show your car.

1Unskilled Jobs
2Skilled Jobs
3Freelancers & Entrepreneurs

Second Life is somewhat like an MMORPG in the sense that you need skills to get a job -- or rather, make a living in Second Life -- but, unlike MMORPGs, the skills you need are your own real life skills!

So: There are no buttons to press in dialog boxes that make you 'instantly' upgrade an artificial skill that will bump your character into the world of professional services. Instead, you have to apply your own real life skills in Second Life in order to succeed. In this article, we'll try to cover a few different types of jobs.

Unskilled jobs are those that don't require any 'outside' skill (i.e. Real-life-related) to be hired. Unsurprisingly, there aren't many around, and they don't pay very well.

Dancer

The first type of unskilled job is the night club dancer. Since club owners rely on traffic -- through a complex formula that converts the time and number of people inside their club for a period of time into a popularity rating -- it's natural for them to hire people to attract these crowds and make sure they stay there as long as possible. Dancers are one way to do that.

To become a dancer, you have three alternatives:

Sometimes, jobs are offered on the Employment section of the forums. You can browse the forum groups to see if someone is hiring.
Some clubs sometimes announce special events just to hire dancers. This has become slightly more rare in later months, so perhaps you should try one of the other ways.
Go to a club you like, try to get in touch with a club owner, and ask him if a job is available.

Some club owners pay a fixed salary, but expect you to be at their club for a certain amount of hours per week (including mostly all announced events at the club, to get a 'full house'). Others rely on tips -- either paid directly to the dancers, or through tip boxes. Some dancers also do stripping or offer escort services.

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Model

Another very glamorous unskilled job is becoming a model. Hiring is done in a similar way as with dancers, but the truth is, there are not many modelling job opportunities. There are a few modelling agencies around, and clothes designers usually contact them to organize big fashion events, just as in real life. These attract very large crowds and are certainly one of the best and more fun ways to present your clothing lines to the Second Life public.

To become a professional model, you'll have to do a serious investment in yourself. To earn a large amount of L$, you not only need a gorgeous avatar, but highly-priced items like a special skin, hair (often prim hair, which is expensive), good make-up techniques, and catwalking animations, preferably unique (thus, often you have to pay someone to create them for you). To become a famous model, expect a recurring investment in more animations. Still, the job usually pays well. And you get the glamour and fame that comes with the job.

Shop Attendant

Lately, shop attendants have become fashionable again, as a counterpoint to automated vendors. Humans always sell much better than machines, so some brands have been hiring people to do the sales for them. Sales reps have the advantage of not being tied to a specific location. An agreement is made upon sales comissions, and, if the shopowner expects you to stay at the same place for a few hours per week, they usually pay you a small salary as well.

Bouncer/Security Agent

With the recent increase of griefers inworld -- people whose source of amusement is to destroy events by disrupting them -- there has also been a rise in the market for bouncers or security agents. When someone is concentrating all of their efforts on running an event, it's always handy to have a few people around that target the griefers and make them leave the place, instead of having to deal with them as well.

In any case -- with the occasional exception of models and escorts -- unskilled jobs don't really pay well, so lets take a look at skilled jobs.

Skilled jobs are of two types:

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Classical skilled jobs, where you employ one of your real life skills directly towards an activity in Second Life.
Freelancers/business owners, where you bring in other skills that don't relate directly to Second Life, but which can be employed successfully to give you a steady income.

Builder/Modeller

The first job is building -- using Second Life's 3D modeling interface to create unique objects that you can sell. This is probably one area of Second Life that everybody has tried at least once: Sticking prims together to build new objects. There are several sorts of builders:

Architects, who specialize in building homes
Furniture designers
Weaponeers
Vehicle designers
Creators of miscellaneous objects (this may include artists, who use the 3D modeling tools of Second Life to create sculptures or similar artistic objects)

While everybody is able to learn the 3D modeling interface of Second Life -- and there are classes teaching both beginner and advanced levels -- the truth is, to become successful in this business, you need an aesthetic sense much more than a thorough knowledge of the tools. It's not surprising that the best architects/designers in Second Life are actually architects in real life, or graphic designers, industrial designers, 3D modelers, or even people from the motion picture special effects or videogame industries. For them, Second Life is just another tool to be learned, like a different word processor for a talented writer. As soon as they grasp the way Second Life's modeling tool works, they can easily create fantastic pieces of art that they can sell very well -- much faster than someone who has no talent but has been inworld for a year or two and really knows all the tricks of the modeling interface. Technique is not a substitute for imagination, creativity, and a well-developed aesthetic sense.

Lately, as Second Life's society complexifies, we see a specialization of builders. A talented architect probably won't design vehicles or furniture, and the reverse is also true. Some people concentrate their efforts on building tiny objects like jewelry or gadgets, and would probably do a bad job of creating a large building. If you're talented, pick up a niche in Second Life building, and focus your efforts on producing objects for that niche. Trying to compete with the well-established masters with solid reputations is very, very hard -- unless you wish to work for them instead of competing. Teams of builders work often together to meet deadlines (and also have more fun together!).

Texture Artist

Associated with builders we often see texturer artists. Due to the nature of 3D worlds, you can't really have good builds if you don't have wonderful textures, and these are much harder to do properly -- it's not a question of simply uploading a freebie texture, applying