By Joseph Galante
Amanda Dorsey has spent dozens of hours categorizing search results on eBay, verifying search-engine links and doing other online jobs for CrowdFlower Inc., a San Francisco employment agency.
Dorsey doesn’t get paid in legal tender. She takes her wages in the form of virtual money, which she’s used to buy a gray winter coat and a sexy yellow doctor’s uniform for her avatar, or virtual self, on TinierMe.com, a chat and game site.
There’s nothing odd about it, says Dorsey, a 28-year-old unemployed writer and editor in Florida. “Doing work for virtual currency is pretty much like any other form of putting forth an effort for a reward,” she said.
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