EARN INCOME - questions

[Elack]

EARN INCOME
For most PCs, Downtime will be spent Earning Income by rolling a Crafting, Performance, or Lore check.

https://lorespire.paizo.com/tiki-index.php?page=Guide-to-Organized-Play:-St arfinder-Society---Second-Edition#Downtime

Earn Income

Downtime

Source Player Core pg. 186
You use one of your skills to make money during downtime

I'm confused with the chosen word on earn income. It sounds like this would be open to any skills rolls.

It not saying "when you use EARN INCOME, you can use Crafting, Performance, or Lore check."

Crafting, Performance, and Lore feeling like suggest to use. Not the requirement.

My question is EARN INCOME in society, are the list skills a suggestion or mandatory?

Thank you for helping clarification.

[Tim Emrick]

You are limited to using Crafting, Performance, or Lore unless you have a feat or boon that allows you to use a different skill. Most PCs won't have those options, so that is why that line is phrased that way.

[Super Zero]

The rules tell you that the GM will determine what gigs are available, and that they can use any skill but most likely it will be the suggested ones.

Organized Play has essentially two GMs, the table GM (who's only the GM for a given session so doesn't make downtime decisions) and the organized play team (who can't make individual decisions for every session). So they resolved that with a (pretty generous) standing ruling about available jobs: You can always find a job of your level -2 that uses any of Crafting, Performance, or any Lore.