How to earn Linden Dollars without buying 'em

Hi guys.. i would like to say one thing at the beginning.. BRAVO to whoever did this.. SL i mean! xD
now.. i am new to SL.. i ran into a very nice girl who kinda helped me out on my first day and all.. that was really nice.
the issue here is i need to get a job here! i need money.. and i'm not gonna beg..
i also don't know how a money tree looks like! i'd love to see one though..
My questions are..
1- How does a money tree look like! (LOL)
2- If i want to get a job as a dancer.. where should i look.. (bare in mind that i'm new here.. give me simple directions please!)
3- Is there such thing as free land? can i get one for free like all the clothes and stuff i find? i found free homes!? do i need a land? i'm confused..
4- I'm a girl.. and i look like one in SL.. but my gesture sounds like a man!
HEEEELLLPPP!!!! (plz don't tell me to upload sounds cuz i don't have money.. yet!)
the drop down menu doesn't show sounds although i have all the gesture sounds in my inventory (male and female)!
if you're an old resident and could help me out plz try to find me on SL and send me an IM with the answers.. if i'm not online..
Thanks for your time and enjoy!

Noori,

1. For much more info about money and making it, see /327/e7/281148/1.html#post2141862/327/e7/281148/1.html#post2141862 On a dollars-per-hour basis, though, you are MUCH better off simply buying some linden dollars with your credit card or PayPal...most SL jobs pay WAY below real life minimum wage.

2. To find a money tree (or anything else), use the Search tool.

3. To get a job as a dancer, look around you. There is probably a club within sight. Find the owner and ask them. Also see the recent thread in this forum about "how to become a dancer".

4. There is no free land. See the SL Wiki page about how land works. Until you know more about it, I recommend that you rent somewhere. But you don't need to do even that...the only reason to own or rent land is to 1) have a nice quiet place to call home, and 2) have a place where you can rez things and leave them out in the world.

5. Gestures: Open your Library/Gestures folder. De-activate all of the male gestures, and activate all of the gestures in the Female gestures folder. You can also activate some or all of the gestures in the Common Gestures folder. You can also turn off the sound in a gesture, or substitute a different sound, by using the Edit/Gestures menu.

I know I'm late to the thread and so now this is a little off topic but I've been mulling over in my head something I'm gonna call micro-jobs. There's a couple of very boring, very easy tasks that need to be done to keep my business running. One is describing parcels i.e. changing the description to something like "This lovely green flat parcel is near water, in a residential and blah blah blah" the other is taking snapshots. There may even be other small things that could be done that I'm not thinking of. It seems like there must be some way I can pay newbies tiny amounts of money (L$10 per parcel or something) to go around doing these jobs. I'm not precisely sure how I'm going to build the infrastructure to support something like this and of course face the usual problems of fending off time wasters while attracting actual "customers".

Obviously this is not a fantastically new idea Amazon's mechanical turk has been doing this for years. But anyway I'm sure there's other businesses out there with similar sorts of repetitive tasks they could foist onto newbs. It would be cool if some of them could start taking advantage of the huge supply of newbs willing to work for pennies on the hour.

That's a great idea. Maybe someone could even start a Central Agency where businesses like you can pay a small fee to be listed as it were, a sort of SL Temp Agency.