I'm not at all sure what you mean by, 'pay off on a weekly basis.'
Here's the classic suggestion. Sign up for a lot of companies. You'll be looking to find out which ones have shops that you like, which ones have shops that pay more, and which ones have shops that are close to you.
One way to manage is to put together a collection of shops, a 'route', that'll have enough shops, clustered close together, to pay for your gas and allow you a profit, too.
That's not something that you should worry about when you're totally new to this. I'd say that the short range plan is to start signing up for companies, and do assignments that are very close to home, so you can get experience while not spending a lot of money on gas.
Medium-range plan, start putting together collections of assignments that you can make a profit on. That's where I am now, and I can see good possibilities there.
Long range plan, (and I'm not there yet, and don't know if I ever will be), get such a good reputation with MSC companies, that they start phoning you, with offers of big money to do shops that someone else flaked out on.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/04/2014 01:04AM by Ishmael.