Should I just quit?

Don't forget free slots too, I've seen tons of people win good money off those.

oi oi i love building it's a great thing to get into i sell my builds at various free yard sales, if you want some help learning gimme an im, i'm pants at scripting but i can show you everything i knows building wise and if u get into it you'll notice (or not the hours flying by and you wont be out in rl spending real cash. You never know you might make some lindens out of it too. I don't charge for building lessons and i can sort u out a few nice textures, i'm not after a partner just like helping peeps out
Miss fangs undertone
Ps this goes for anyone else that could also do with some help with building feel free to say hi anytime.

Are you are an entrepeneur, with the capital to start your own business, plus the time, tools and talent to manage it? If not, trying to profit in SL is a complete waste of effort. Turn off the internet, go mow lawns, babysit, or walk the neighbors dog, then buy Lindens on the exchange. You will get more of them, more easily, and spend considerably less time.

To the original poster - I would ask a question...

You are looking for a real job - did you give up in a week and say oh well time to go and live on the beach ?

You want to earn money but do not want to invest even a little so that you can earn it.
You are looking for some money in a place that is more competitive than RL for considerably less money ( RL money that is )

Making money in SL requires that you provide something for people that they are willing to pay money for, to do that you have to learn how to do stuff, to do that you have to play, experience and learn.

Linden have touted SL as the new gold rush, "come in - make a fortune" - it's a lie.
You earn money here like you earn money in RL - with sweat, graft, experience and a skill or two.

I have been here for over a year and except for my premium payments ( I went premium a little while ago ) I have never put any cash into SL - but I have put a very considerable amount of time and effort learning what is possible and how to achieve it.

And yes - now I earn money from it.

But in answer to your question

"should you give up because you are not making money within a week"

my answer would be yes

But when I say yes, I don't mean give up on SL - I mean give up thinking that it will make you rich overnight - it wont.

Give up looking to for the golden egg and start looking at the system that is there.

I think some people misunderstood what I ment about l$. Its not really the money. Its more like what I can do with it. Like get a decent skin or possibly land if I get a premium account.

I am on the look out for a job. Even had an interview the other day. Just it seamed like it was impossible to make any L$ at all other then a few here and there.

SL isn't really a game for low skilled work, as a lot of people have mentioned over a number of threads. (Most of us resist the term game as well, quite rightly.) We don't need (and speaking as a non-US resident I personally don't like) shop attendants - if I want help I'll ask the creator, I don't want someone pouncing on me.

We don't have raw materials to be extracted, prepared etc. We don't have production lines and sweat shops. We do have a lot of cottage industries, but they're more in the consultant variety than knitting jumpers variety... telework in a virtual world, who'd have thought?!

Camping chairs and money trees are basically advertising scams from one end. They're welfare money from the other. Past that, there is still the employment ops forum. They advertise for low skill jobs amongst others, and it's not just call girl. The other options... there are high skilled jobs: scripting, clothes making, building etc. There are jobs that are still skilled but require financial stablitiy of some level up front: land baron.

Most "jobs" of that type in Second Life are relatively low paying, but the idea is that you should take them because you enjoy them.

Many of the "skilled" jobs can be learned - visit a sandbox or a class. Although it can be hard to get noticed and sell stuff when you're starting, it is possible. The trick is to innovate - do things in a style that hasn't been done before. Oh, and tip: if you haven't already made something, then it hasn't been done before in your style. Yes, you have one. You can't not.

Also, just explore and make friends and if you have an overall goal in mind, work towards it directly rather than getting stuck on the sidelines. I actually know a girl who was given a fairly large sum of money and land area free because she wanted to be a fairground designer and someone thought that, actually, having a fairground in SL would be great (it was Four Seasons, for the oldbies reading). But she got it because she kept that in mind and had been practicing and building fairground rides in the sandbox, and later on her first land, finding suitable poses and cheap outfits, and similar. If she had just started with the basis she'd need money and land and focused entirely on nothing but getting them by the quickest/easiest means possible then probably nobody would ever have noticed her.

Nice post, Yumi!

And four Seasons was great.

coco

Try checking here, there are some great Employment oppurtunities here
http://www.sl-forums.com/viewforum.php?f=21