Walkthrough for the mission Gainful Employment in the game Red Dead Redemption 2. This page covers all main objectives, key steps, or helpful tips to guide you through the mission smoothly. Whenever possible, the guide points out locations for key items and details interactions with NPCs, among other tips. To ensure maximum clarity, in-game screenshots are included for easy-to-follow visual guidance.
Quest Group: Epilogue - Part 1 - Pronghorn Ranch
Category: Story Mission
Prerequisites: To play this mission, you must first complete the mission Motherhood.
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.
Valentine
World Map
Strawberry
World Map
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.
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.
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.
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 this mission, you will be able to play the mission Bare Knuckle Friendships.