Krysty,
My rule of thumb has always been that if I had no shops on a day when I wanted to work, I should sign up with at least 5 more MSCs as my work day. Once I has 150 MSCs it was to check every job board on a day with no other work.
Now, if you do mostly retail, December might be slim becasue retail clients don't usually want their short term associates evaluated (or at least not to have to pay for that, lol.) Everything else seems to be going like crazy EOQ and EOM in December.
Based in MD, near DC
Shopping from the Carolinas to New York
Have video cam; will travel
Poor customer service? Don't get mad; get video.