SECOND LIFE

The first game I’m going to outline in which you can make money is technically not a game. It is more like a way of life where you create your character / avatar and interact with other people by moving around and chatting with text or speech. The best thing about this platform is it is completely free to join, there are no monthly fees and you can be earning money within hours of creating your character.

The game is currently only available on the PC and you can visit their site to download the software from www.secondlife.com In the game, you earn money in various ways which I will detail later. The software house is Linden Labs; therefore the game’s own currency is Linden Dollars. These dollars can then be exchanged for real dollars in the real world. There are people right now spending as much as 14 hours a day ‘playing’ this and making money. At the time of writing, the exchange rate was around 300 Linden Dollars to 1 American Dollars but this can fluctuate.

What you do in the game is completely up to you. There are people who just use this as a way of chatting to friends, some people like to role-play within the game, but there are many others who really see this as a second job and do things within the game that they couldn’t in real life, possibly due to their culture, body size, location or whatever.

The next few posts are some examples of jobs you can do within Second Life...