Just what is this Second Life all about?

Standing around Help Island I’ve heard that question over and over.

The Answer? Well, it can be anything you make of it.

Being a Newbie isn’t a shameful thing, in fact I’m envious of them, you have a fresh start or a *Cleanslate* of sorts, to work with. Also asking questions isn’t such a bad idea either, I’ve been on here over a year now and still ask them.

Can you earn an income on here?

Yes, there are people here that can make *Real* money, from producing skins or clothing, making jewelry or scripting items or animations to furniture etc. to sell to you.

There are the virtual jobs: Bouncing for clubs, escorting, stripping, hostess and Djng or greeter, photography just to list a few.

For your time and effort a lot of people will pay you Lindens to do *something* for them.

Do a search of *jobs or hiring* and you will find a listing of them to try out for.

There is that dirty word. * camping*... I will talk on that later.


Someone just gave me/I bought clothing but it's in a box?

I see that a lot as well along with people walking around with a box on the head or hand. The box is just like a present, inside you will find items you purchased but you need to get them out of the box to wear them.

To cure the Box on the head or hand predicament:

Take the box from your Inventory, sometimes you can find it in your Objects folder and then some times they have a folder of their own or they might land in your Clothing folder.
Slide the Box on the ground. (Do it, no one can take it away from you)
Right click it.

Then a pie chart is available choose *Open.*

You will see the contents in the folder.

Click *copy to Inventory*

(sometimes I'm lazy and choose the *copy and wear* option)

This takes those items out of the box and individually places them in your inventory.

Now you once again may have another folder with icons that look like shirts or pants or shoes etc.
You can right click those and chose wear.

How do I sit?

See an item you might like to sit on?

Just right click and a Pie chart will appear or with a Mac just click it.

You will see the *sit* option.

Hint: some times SL will prompt you that you can't sit there. Keep clicking around on the object, sometimes they are just picky where you click.

What is a Rebake and how do I find that oven?

When someone says *Do a Rebake* or that you are missing textures it means you haven’t fully loaded on SL.
It doesn’t mean you are missing limbs; however it can mean you appear bald or gray.

How to cure that?

Click on your AV
Then Appearance
Give that a few seconds to load
You can Cancel and things should clear up

If not clear your cache and cookies and log off and back on.