He was not having a good day. It wasn't that he wasn't getting hired to preform guard duties to the first checkpoint in the forest, it was that they all either didn't want HIM, as he had a peculiar reputation in the otherwise mostly law abiding town, or that they wanted a guard for the entire trip, rather than just the first portion. It was getting to the point that he was going to have to go out and explore for his supplies on his own, rather than his preferred method of using a caravan to get closer to his destination.