Suggestion required re my skills

I've been managing a team of 20 people for the last 2 years online and 40 part time workers RL for the past 3 years. This includes hires, fires, training, appraisals, being the contact person when they need someone and a whole lot of organisational skills.

I started dancing in SL but I think i'd really like to move into a position where I can really offer the skills i've got and the qualifications i've achieved.

I'm in UK time and can be online 7 days a week from at various times from around 2am SL time to 8pm SL time.

Now my question is how would someone who really wants to get involved with management in SL go about this as most positions are for dancers / escorts and secondly do you know of any agencies I might want to sign up with to promote myself?

You are online from 2AM SL time to 8PM SL time = 18hours/day, so your RL job is sitting before PC to play SL. Good job

If I were you I wouldn't look to find employment, I'd look to employ myself. Why not start a business yourself?

I also would have to echo the previous poster though: if you are spending that much time in SL, you are either unemployed or you don't sleep. Don't lose track of real life while you are living your fantasy in SL. You might even be better of starting a business in real life if you have the skills you mention.

Sorry I should have pointed out I'm on summer holidays now so actually no i'm not neglecting my job and my online job is just that online.

I am wondering if it was a typo?

did you mean 2pm??? or really 2am????

I do not work outside the home (personal reasons) and I do not spend that much time on SL LOL

maybe 8 to 10 hours a day, with some days being maybe 1 or 2 hours.,,, and all I do IS sit in front of the PC....


so was it typo? or do you really spend that much time on SL???

No I meant i'm online 7 days a week and can be online from x to x usually. I'm not talking about living online, though most of my work is online so I do seem to a lot of the time, but a this is when I can be online. Does that make better sense?

Unfortunately, the type of positions you're looking for are largely unavailable outside of the club atmosphere. The business market in SL hasn't really developed to a level where many businesses can employ "staff". There are exceptions...I know, for instance, that ETD keeps a staff of--I think--6 persons. Of course, they are a GIGANTIC company in the scope of SL business.

Clubs are fine and great but I'd really like to move more from me dancing and escorting to me managing if that makes sense?

yep makes sense about when you can be on line
sounded like you ARE online from x to x LOL

anywho yes makes sense wanting get out of dancing and escorting... to managing

gl with it

Kimber, if you want to manage anything, you gotta put forth effort to make it happen. By this, I mean to say, you need to try to visualize what you want to see happen, then go for it yourself. The chances of anyone posting a professional management position on these forums is very slim.

Just figure out what you really want to do / see done, make it into a plan (yes, business plans even for a business in an imaginary world are still a very good idea), and put it into action.

Now, if you cannot think of something that you feel will be a success within SL, then maybe you should do some research into what the current shortcomings of the community as a whole are, then try to fill that gap.

Well I was a dancer at a well known club in SL for quite awhile, worked my way up the ladder their then started looking elsewhere---started out as sales associate for a store in SL and now I am the manager there. So u can go from Dancer to management, but sometimes u have to do it in steps. I have been in SL for little bit over a year, and it took that long to get this good of a job. It can be done, just keep looking in here and maybe look for a step-up position. Also, even in managment I don't make gobs of Lindens here, just enuff to pay some bills in game.

Hope that helps,

Scarlet

Well I was a dancer at a well known club in SL for quite awhile, worked my way up the ladder their then started looking elsewhere---started out as sales associate for a store in SL and now I am the manager there. So u can go from Dancer to management, but sometimes u have to do it in steps. I have been in SL for little bit over a year, and it took that long to get this good of a job. It can be done, just keep looking in here and maybe look for a step-up position. Also, even in managment I don't make gobs of Lindens here, just enuff to pay some bills in game.

Hope that helps,

Scarlet

Land rental businesses usually carry quite a big customer service overhead - dealing with prospective and current tenants, explaining lease terms, inviting people to groups, checking prim limits etc - so this might be a good industry to start in. Store managers are becoming more common but my impression is that those positions are often not advertised publicly so it might be more difficult to get a foot into that. Maybe if you have a friend who is into creating stuff, you could team up with them to start a business in SL, and take care of the whole "business" side of stuff?

Kimber,

I am currently working on a business plan and have need for help IM me in game and lets discuss.

Why not get your rental business started by subletting my parcels. Search Places for NinjaLand to see them all. I always have a huge inventory of land that you can rent and cancel at a moment's notice. You then carry no risks since you don't pay anything up front for land, you don't need to be premium, if one of your renters cancel you can cancel with me and you don't have surplus land to offload.

Failing that you can advertise and find renters for my parcels and hand off all the work to me. You earn 10% commission on all rent paid by your referrals. See my post here: /118/14/183893/1.html