Gainful Employment Red Dead Redemption 2 Mission
Group: Epilogue - Part 1 - Pronghorn Ranch
Category: Story Mission
To begin this mission, go to Valentine and enter the saloon and you will meet Sadie there. After a short chat, Sadie will ask John if he is interested in bounty hunting. John will agree to help her with one in Strawberry.
After receiving a telegram from Sadie, John meets her in Valentine and helps her with some bounty hunting work.
Gold Medal Checklist
- After arriving in Strawberry, locate the bounty within 30 seconds
- After mounting your horse, catch and hogtie the bounty within 1 minute 15 seconds
Related points of interest
Valentine
World Map
Strawberry
World Map
Prior missions
To begin Gainful Employment you must first complete Motherhood.
Objectives of Gainful Employment
1. Follow Sadie to Strawberry
You'll get on your horses and set off on your way to Strawberry. While riding, John will ask Sadie why she sent him a telegram. She did it because some time ago she heard about someone who looks like Micah.
When you get to Strawberry, Sadie will tell you that the name of the person you're looking for is Nathan Kirk. She will also suggest that you should ask in the town where you can find him.
2. Ask around about Nathan Kirk / Enter the Welcome Center / Go to Nathan Kirk's room
You can, of course, ask the people in town. Finally, they'll tell you that you should go to the welcome center, which is a hotel. And the hotel owner will tell you in which room you will find Mr. Kirk. But if you want to get the gold medal in this mission, you only have 30 seconds for this. So as soon as you get off the horse run directly to the hotel as fast as you can, go up the stairs and approach the room number three.
3. Kick open the door to Nathan Kirk's room / Chase after and capture Nathan Kirk
Kirk won't want to let you in, so open the door with a kick. He will escape to the balcony. Run after him.
Kirk will jump down, get on his horse and start running.
You should also jump down, preferably directly on your horse, and start chasing him. If you want to earn the gold medal, then you have one minute and 15 seconds to catch up with him, lasso him and hogtie him up.
Follow him until you get to the grubbed-up clearing. At some point, Kirk will turn to the right, but you should go straight.
Thanks to this you will get close enough to him to use the lasso.
Then quickly get off the horse and tie him up.
4. Pick up Nathan Kirk / Stow Nathan Kirk on Sadie's horse
Stow Kirk on Sadie's horse.
When you do that, Sadie will tell you where you can find her and she will go to collect the bounty.
After completing Gainful Employment you will get or will be able to get Bare Knuckle Friendships (1 of 2).