Some of us have been in this for many years now, we ALL would like to get paid more but the job pays what the job pays. Yes, I did a couple of shops that paid $450 each when I was done but the company also talked to you on the phone for awhile to get the feel if you could do it or not.
Take jobs and do them well, it DOES involve work and it's not easy money like the advertisements try to tell you. Also, NEVER NEVER NEVER pay any company to let you work, no matter how special and wonderful they tell you their shops are. They're loading your money into their pockets and it should be the other way around.
Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain