Noob, definately definately Noob.

Hello all, Happy New Year!!!!
I am a noob. I would like to obtain a few things, and figured this to be the perfect place to ask.

I would like a job.
I would like either to rent some land or find land worth upgrading my membership and buying.
I want to learn to build houses.

Thank you all for at least reading this, and thank you thank you if you answer!!!!

~Farrah~

First of all the Search button at the bottom of the SL Client screen is gonna be your "best friend". You will end up using it a LOT to get the most out of SL...

1. As far as a job, it depends on what you want to do. You can dance at a club or something like that...you can camp for a small amount of L$, but I don't suggest it because you hardly get anything for the massive amount of waiting.

Use "Search" in the SL Client and look in the Classifieds for places that are hiring. The best way to make L$, is to make something, and rent a booth in a mall or shop area to sell it. You can learn how to build by going to classes. Classes can be found under Search every day under "Education"

2. You don't really need Land in SL but it can be fun; you will need at least the L$ to rent a condo, apartment, shack or whatever though. To see what's for rent, use Search again...

Search under "Places" for rentals if you want to start "small". I suggest you do this before you upgrade to Premium just to buy Land; see how much time you will be spending in SL every week first.

3. You should take a basic building class too get used to the building tools...after that building a simple shack will be easy, and you can go from there. Once you build anything, you really start to learn how easy it is to just draw some basic shapes connected together and turn it into a house in SL

Good luck

I suggest you drop by the Shelter and NCI, the New Citizens Group. They've got tons of classes and notecards and people to ask things of inworld.

For learning to build the Ivory Tower of Primitives, plus there are classes at NCI, and ... practice! The build editor is fairly simple. Also, go to a sandbox and take the objects in your inventory folder out and see how they are made.

Read the building forum.

Join the group Builders of Second Life.

There are tons of free objects that you can take apart and modify and put back together, or start from scratch and see if you can make one that resemble them, or are better than them, or make something that's a cross between several different things.

There's no way to learn building in SL without at some point actually opening the build editor and just start playing around.

If you have a sufficient money supply you could go ahead and buy land, but if you have any need for thrift you might want to get to know SL better before buying land.

Hi Farrah. Welcome to SL and to the forums! I say take things one step at a time. If you're one week old, do you really need rent or buy land yet ... why not just hang out for a while, get to know the place? I hung out in SL for months before getting a place to "live". And even then it was a free skybox apartment.

If you don't get a place to live, you don't need much money immediately either, so perhaps getting a job becomes less urgent. Keep in mind the exchange rate - roughly $L270 per U.S. dollar. Why not just buy a few thousand Lindens, collect some of the nicer freebies (perhaps you've done that already?), and explore for a while, before tying yourself down to a job? Although I see you've already begun answering forum requests for employees - that's a good way to start if you feel you need to work. But remember that exchange rate

Now, as to building. The Ivory Tower of Prims has wonderful self-help tutorials, and doing them is much faster than anyone here teaching you. If self-help is not your gig, there are great inworld building classes taught at both NCI and TUI. I haven't used new search, so if you can't find them, someone else will have to help with that. They used to list them all as classified ads, I believe.

Speaking of NCI (New Citizens, Inc), have you been there? Great freebies, great classes, a sandbox, changing rooms, and always a few oldbies around to mentor. There and the affiliated coffehouse (the Shelter) are great places to start.

Yeah, I'm really glad to see NCI being mentioned here...as far as right now they are THE people to contact for new members. Look up thier Group and join, so you'll be notified of classes... I have been to a few classes for fun there, and it's always a good time and informative.

Look in SEARCH > EVENTS > EDUCATION for a list on classes happening over the next few days, you can even activite anotify tab that remindes you 5 minutes before the event is on.

From my experience NCI is a wonderful organization. I recommend joining NCI, absolutely and without hesitation.

Hi, I'm a noob as well, and I have some of the same goals that you do.

I'm a month old, and I just purchased land yesterday, and I looked around for weeks before I bought. I found that Sarah Nerd had both the fairest price and seemed to have an excellent rep in the SL community, so I bought from her. Also, she has a website (www.sarahnerd.com) so I could avoid the bulky and not-so-helpful land search.

Depending on what you want to do with land, you may just want to use the free noob condos (great for changing clothes and sorting inventory), or the sandboxes for building.

I also agree about NCI-I took a couple of classes there already & it's super helpful.

About the suggestion for freebies-Yes! Especially for fashion-read the SL FreeStyle or FabFree fashion blogs. There's a ton of top quality stuff out there to give you a good start.

Jobwise, I'm still looking myself, and I agree that you want to consider the exchange rate.
You wouldn't want to spend the time that you could use learning to build, doing something that's not particularly fun for a US dollar or two.
Camping sucks in general, but if you need to sort your inventory, it's a good thing to do while you take care of that.

Good luck & enjoy yourself!

What I would recommend rather than buying land is renting land on a sim. You can "buy" land on a sim, but what you're really doing is paying a lot up front and still having to pay tier, and the sim owner could sell the sim -including your land - out from under you at any time. Every now and then threads about this very thing happening to someone will pop up here and at sluniverse.com. Someone bought 1/4 a sim for real money (not lindens) and then the sim owner sold. There is no legal recource when this happens to you. When you buy on the mainland that doesn't happen, but the mainland looks like a giant junk yard. Plus, if you rent, you don't have to have a premium membership.

Anyway, that is what I've been doing for awhile now..... renting land and I own the house. My sim owner has let me do pretty much whatever I want to my land. Now, he is supposedly selling (haven't heard directly from him), but at least I haven't invested any real money into that land. I have just been paying what I would have paid in tier for that much land, and saving the $8 membership.

I've been homeless since I started almost 2 months ago... And I kinda like it that way. (^_^) I have found plenty of abandoned places and one mall that I have picked as my favorite "changing room". I've refused all non-skilled job offers I've ever received (some of them were shady (O_o)) and I'm still living on the $9 I put in when I started. (^_^)y

SL can be greatly enjoyed without throwing money at it. Then again... I'm easily amused. (=_=)

*Waves to Farrah & Whyspe*

Don't do yourselves down. You may be newbies or beginners, but you have automatically disqualified yourselves from noob-hood by asking for advice.

What kind of job are you looking for?
what kind of land are you looking to rent or buy?
And I can help you learn how to build houses... just holler at me in world!

First of all, on the topic of a job, I would hold off, make friends first, they will give you far more enjoyment in SL then anything you buy. Without great friends working for lindens will just turn into another day at work. Also if you are dead set on a job, be sure it is something you enjoy and can have fun at.

For land it's a trade off. Renting land you will find you are usually limited to what you can do with it and can be evicted for any or no reason at all. Mainland there is still come desireable mainland out there, it is just really hard to find and usually costs a pretty penny, but you can not be evicted from mainland unless your tier fees stop rolling into Linden Lab's pocket (Assuming you have more then 512.).

To learn to build I greatly recommend taking some of NCI's building courses. They start from really basic and go up from there.

Thanks for all your help guys!!!!! *big hugs for all* I knew all I had to do was ask and answers would come! Hope to see you all in world as soon as I get my new video card in place, right now I've been using a friend's computer. If you see me just say hey, I'm jobless in rl as well as sl so I've got time on my hands!

~Farrah~

Hi New peoples (waves)

I am basically new myself being only 3 months old but in that three months I went from no home, an apt for a week deal, to renting land.

I still don't have a job as I figure that is a waste of my time. If I were to go out and spend 3 or 4 hours a night at a club I would be spending a lot more money than I do in SL. There is so much to experience and learn. I have been learning to build crystals and I love to landscape. Going to all the sims, wandering around looking at all the creativity is relaxing....and shopping, I love hair shopping!!! A gal can't have too much hair.

I suggest taking your time, get a feeling of where you want to belong. There is a lot to do and a lot of goals.