The Marketplace

August 11, 2009 – Day 223

Today at work Laura (my co-worker friend and fellow addicted virtual farmer) clued me in to Farm Town’s Marketplace! It’s a place where Farm Town’s virtual farmers can go to hire other virtual farmers to harvest and plow our crops. When we hire help to harvest and plow our fields, we earn many more coins per harvested crop! We can also hire ourselves out to work on other virtual farmers’ crops and earn even more coins.

I was so excited and couldn’t wait to try it when I got home. My cabbage patch was ready to harvest at 6:00 so I went to the marketplace and hired someone to harvest it for me and plow the fields afterward. Once that was done and I’d replanted the fields (with raspberries which are ready and waiting for me to harvest as I write this), I went back to the marketplace to look for work – and I was hired! My first job was in a large field and the farmer’s instructions were to harvest anything and everything that needed to be harvested. I began, but after harvesting about four things, my computer booted me out of the game.

Back to the marketplace I went and another farmer, named Miss Kittee, hired me shortly after. My task in that field was to plow a small field. I did - and it was very exciting to be working in someone else's field. When I finished the job, Miss Kittee said, “Thanks for being so fast!”, so I guess my first job as hired farm help was a success!