Gerald’s jobs are mostly gunfights over drugs and rival crews. Learning The Ropes Alone is part of the first session of GTA Online: it follows the Mall Or Nothing race, Lamar briefs you on a street in Los Santos, and you play it alone with no wanted level. Free Mode opens once you hand over the drugs.
How to start
After the tutorial, Gerald’s jobs arrive as phone invites or appear in the job list in the Pause Menu as your rank grows. They start at rank 6 and go up to rank 45, and nearly all take 1 to 4 players. Chumash and Grab needs at least 2. Bring body armor and an automatic weapon to most of them, because the enemies are numerous.
Payouts work like every contact job: a rank-based maximum that is reduced the longer you take. The table below gives the top payout and RP for each job.
| Mission | Contact | Rank | Players | Top payout | RP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning The Ropes Alone |  Gerald | – | 1 | – | 1300 |
| Pier Pressure | Gerald | 6 | 1 to 4 | $18,360 | 1000 |
| Death Metal | Gerald | 6 | 1 to 4 | $18,360 | 1320 |
| Deal Breaker | Gerald | 6 | 1 to 4 | $18,360 | 1340 |
| Flood in the LS River | Gerald | 6 | 1 to 4 | $18,360 | 1400 |
| Meth’d Up | Gerald | 7 | 1 to 4 | $18,420 | 1100 |
| No Hay Bronca | Gerald | 8 | 1 to 4 | $18,480 | 1320 |
| Gassed Up | Gerald | 12 | 1 to 4 | $18,720 | 1310 |
| Hit ‘Em Up | Gerald | 14 | 1 to 4 | $18,840 | 2180 |
| Violent Duct | Gerald | 15 | 1 to 4 | $18,900 | 1180 |
| Hard Labor | Gerald | 19 | 1 to 4 | $19,140 | 2250 |
| War and Pieces | Gerald | 30 | 1 to 4 | $19,800 | 2160 |
| Chumash and Grab | Gerald | 35 | 2 to 4 | $20,100 | 1900 |
| Dish the Dirt | Gerald | 45 | 1 to 4 | $20,700 | 2510 |
Notable jobs
Learning The Ropes Alone is the tutorial: go to the meeting in Strawberry, take the drugs from the carrier and drop them at Gerald’s apartment.
Death Metal at rank 6 is a good first real job. You clear Roger’s scrapyard of guards, take the cocaine and deliver it. Use the walls and crates for cover.
Hit ‘Em Up has four Ballas targets who must fall in order, spread across the whole map, so bring a fast car. Hard Labor takes you up through a construction site floor by floor, and a sniper or heavy rifle helps for the chase at the end. War and Pieces at rank 30 and Dish the Dirt at rank 45 are the later jobs. Deal Breaker, Flood in the LS River and Pier Pressure sit at rank 6.
Tips for these jobs
Restock armor and ammo before each job, since there is rarely a chance to do it midway. With a partner, split the work: one of you clears enemies while the other carries the package. For more on ranks and payouts see payouts and RP.