Oh you can make a big profit in SL. It becomes apparent pretty fast that people will pay for virtual stuff. How could that possibly not be profitable lol!!
Scripting is definately the best paid job, but being a creative builder is certainly a big payer too. I met a woman (in real life) who makes flowers. She is now famous in second life because of the indiviuality of her flowers. People buy them for their clubs and houses. She earns a full living from it.
I also met someone who copies 3D models from other games and sells them. I'm not sure about the copyright ramifications of that but he makes a living from that too.
There are lots of other ways to make money of course, being an "escort", a DJ, an event organiser, or work for a club "welcoming people". There is also a thing called "camping". You basically get paid (a very small amount) for sitting in a chair, or cleaning the floor (you don't physically have to do anything). The purpose of this is that your presence is classed as traffic for the land owner, and that puts them higher up in searches. You need to find a bot though that stops you going afk.
My personal conclusion is that the best way to earn money is creating stuff, (just like RL ;-)) building things that nobody else has, using your own imagination and style. If you can script it, mega bonus, but if not you can just hire a scripter and pay him half the profit on sales of that item. Also some items dont need scripting (like buildings).
LAND
You don't HAVE to own land, in fact I'd recommend renting a shop instead. They're pretty cheap (about £3+ a week) You don't have to worry about generating traffic because that is then done by the mall owner, also you don't have to pay the land owners monthly fee. On the other hand if you own land you can resell it for the same or more so the only cost is the monthly fee to Linden. It really depends on what you want.
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