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Jobs in SL are limited to such things as DJ, club management, and club security, and most of those are filled from the ranks of the people who like hanging out at the clubs in the first place (SLJOBS has a number of openings listed for a casino, but those were there in the first week the site went online, and no-one seems to have taken them -- more likely, the jobs have been taken and the site just hasn't been updated, which means it's worthless anyway). We have no restaurants, no hotels, no gas stations, no convenience stores, no taxicabs, and no real industries in which new "immigrants" can find work; this leaves newbies in the position of the classic "illegal" or "wetback" -- broke, out of work, can't find work. Scripted vendors and "shopping bag" or "boxed" sales obviate the need for store sales staff. Hired management staff in retail businesses basically serve as glorified greeters.
Newbies in SL now need jobs, though. With the removal of dwell payments, and the cancellation of stipends for new BASIC accounts, those newbies who either won't or CAN'T provide a debit/credit card for LindEx purchases are forced to depend on camping and money trees. The latter, however, aren't as numerous as they once were; money trees are now likely to be "target sites" for a new group (group name/title: HIRED HITMAN) which is targeting newbies in a classic "protection" extortion scam. Furthermore, due to the prevalence of people using alts to "farm" the trees, and "magic money" scammers, many previous money trees have been deleted.
So we're back to the question of what jobs are available in SL: there just aren't that many clubs that need DJs and security goonsl. Hiring newbies and giving them access to your inventory and your account balance really isn't a good idea, with the prevalence of alts being used to scam other residents.
We need creative thinking about job creation.
-- One of the new resident sites, SLHANDBOOK.COM, was paying for surveys ($50L each for the first 1000 surveys completed, with a max of 20 per avatar), but I don't know if they are still doing so. This was NOT listed on SLJOBS.COM, but was announced in the forums and is still being advertised on the SLHANDBOOK site (which hasn't been updated recently, either). Unfortunately, MOST RESIDENTS OF SL (particularly the newbies) DO NOT READ THE FORUMS, so announcing it there was rather asinine.
-- Security employees may still be necessary in mall areas and clubs. The last update provided landowners with the option of drastically limiting
PUSH effects on their own land, which means that casual mall shoppers and clubbers can shop and dance without being orbited every 10 minutes by some newbie asshole or the alt of a griefer. While landowners who run malls and clubs may need to have 3rd-party scripting enabled in order for their business to operate at all, the new PUSH limits will restore a modest level of basic civility to SL society, once enough landowners have adjusted their land settings to limit PUSH effects.
-- Shop owners might want to consider paying newbies to carry around prims with ads in the WELCOME areas and in sandboxes; clothing designers could donate a complete outfit to a newbie, along with a sandwich board ad to wear, and ask them to cruise high-traffic areas.
PLEASE NOTE: If you're asking your employees to cruise a mall or nightclub, GET THE OWNER'S PERMISSION FIRST -- they might not appreciate your using their premises to promote YOUR business. DO NOT send employees into areas like the SL Botanical Gardens or other sites where people are not being ACTIVELY SOCIAL, but looking for a little quiet time as a couple. DO NOT SEND THESE EMPLOYEES OUT TO SELL YOUR ITEMS FROM THEIR OWN INVENTORY -- you cannot SELL items in the WELCOME AREAS or in sandboxes.
I don't know if avatar employees carrying "sandwich board" advertising is against any LL rules, particularly if your employees also distribute "welcome" gift packs, like notecards listing newbie resource centers and freebie sites and "how-to" notecards for those little tips and tricks that most newbies take at least a week or so to pick up (how to change clothes/skins/shapes/avatars by means of dragging a folder from INVENTORY on top of your av is a trick that no-one seems to get around to telling newbies for awhile -- it took 2 weeks before I found someone willing to tell me how to do it, and I joined in Sept 2005, before the new registration policy and the flood of unverified newbies created a new and much-despised underclass in SL... newbies weren't quite as unwelcome when I joined as they are now).
OH, yeah -- that brings up a thought - so many "newbies" running around are begging or harassing people for money -- if you see one of these so-called newbies suddenly change clothes using the folder trick (instead of piece-by-piece as a normal newbie would be doing), they're not a newbie, they're the alt of a scamming thief who's making easy money. |
For the creators in SL: making a scripted sandwich board that rotates pics of different items and gives a landmark to a store location when someone clicks on the sandwich board shouldn't be too difficult. I believe I saw an image-rotation script listed on SLB, in fact. However, please make sure that the script does NOT auto-spam everyone in the vicinity with landmarks and notecards, as some store-assistant scripted items do. Only provide landmarks to those who click on the sandwich board to request one.
At the moment, that's my best suggestion (it's barely 9am -- need caffeine). We don't have alot of jobs in SL due to the nature of SL business -- run by automated scripts and basic box sales, we really don't have a need for many employees, which means newbies in need of Lindens who don't have debit/credit cards on file for LindEx use are SOL.
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