Talk:Sweetie Belle/@comment-29017069-20170112000846/@comment-4531340-20170114102129

I look at it this way - even if the CMC weren't paid in that particular case, they've been building goodwill and reputation amongst the townsponies of Ponyville, so that they can potentially start charging for their services in the future (so in that way, I can see it as a job - it just seemed far too formalized to me for me to consider it anything else).

But to get back to the original topic, I agree with Herculine - it more just seems that Sweetie Belle is not all that useful for the more intricate operations in sewing and that sort of thing (for that, her usefulness seems to end at fetching whatever Rarity might need at that moment).