I don't have gold. I do know that a friend of mine does get offers I don't get from the same MSC's, and she is gold, but I cannot state the reason for sure... just hunch. I don't plan on getting gold, I only got the silver a year and a half ago to be able to do one restaurant shop I wanted that the MSC required it for. I thought the "training" was worth *way* less than the $15 I paid for it, but it did the job I took it for and I did get the restaurant I wanted immediately after. I have no intention of getting gold. I have to have a really really really great reason to drive more than 3 miles for a shop - sometimes it is that I like that part of the island and need a change of scenery, or have personal or family reasons to need to be there, or more frequently, they threw a large bonus at me. Otherwise, 99% of my shops are within a mile or two of home, but I live in a densely populated tourist city with huge amounts of stores in 1.5 miles in three different directions from my house. I do take jobs less than $15 or I would not have that many shops, but I try to stack my shops so that I get the one paying what I want first, then will pad it with others that pay less, are worth the way less $ as they are easy, and are in the same mall. This month I have 93 jobs and an average of $19.56 per job, so this is working for me, where I live, in this market. Why change?
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