Please tell me that the vet career wasn't neglected in DU. My sim is going to be a vet, but I didn't see a degree related to it when she applied.
ETA: Ugh. I just remembered that vet isn't an actual career. Sigh. Guess she'll just take classes to improve the skill. I had everything planned out perfectly, too.
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She would be able to get the Friends of the Animals scholarship as she has already helped out at the clinic and has a little vet skill, but then what degree to study...? I guess the closest would be biology, and then she could travel to her parents clinic to practice her vet skills.
Perhaps...
I really see university as a place to get that skill up. Is it really me or does high vet skill help sims to diagnose pets faster? I see benefit in that.
I have yet to try out being a Vet yet, but I do like the idea.
I put a station in my custom dorm.
Reading a book and going to a rabbit hole doesn't do it for me.
I also like to see some applied learning in my game play. Whenever the sim has some free time, you can have them work on those vet skills.
Yeah, I decided to choose biology. I was just so ready to get the career perks that come with having a degree... I wish they could have added vet somehow to the biology major, giving your sim a boost when/if they purchase a vet clinic. It never bothered me that it was only a skill, but it does now that it's affecting my money, lol.
Because it's a business, like retail with Get to Work and restaurants with Dine Out. Both of which have a degree you could use- Culinary Arts for a restaurant and Communications for retail. Wow... The Sims team really did think of everything I suppose.
Because it's a business, like retail with Get to Work and restaurants with Dine Out. Both of which have a degree you could use- Culinary Arts for a restaurant and Communications for retail. Wow... The Sims team really did think of everything I suppose.[/quote]
I disagree and think that they didn't think of everything. Starting your businesses can be a challenge in get to work, and having a degree that could benefit you in making it a little easier is realistic. Starting a restaurant with no degree as apposed to having the degree in communications or veterinarian (they absolutely should have included that) should make a drastic difference in the difficulty or at least the skills of the staff you hire. If it's a job above the min wage choices (cashier, lifeguard etc) it should have a degree directly connected along with benifits to starting your businesses. If they thought of everything, they would have included a vet degree and everything else I mentioned.
@elanorbreton What's it like running a vet clinic? I've a sim with both cat lover and dog lover traits and am considering making her a vet.
My sim working
Last time I played one I cheated them some money so I could buy a fairly nice clinic (nothing too extravagant). This time I have put my sim through a uni Biology degree and she is saving up to buy a small vet clinic.
I guess it can get a little repetitive, like all of the 'hands on' careers:
You travel to your clinic and get into uniform and open up. Patients start arriving and their owners book them in and then you go and greet one and start examining the cat or dog. Each time you check something, such as checking the pets ears or heartbeat, one or more of the symptoms will usually fill up, then eventually you will fill them all up and be able to treat the animal. Once they are treated, the owner pays you and then you start again with the next patient until you are ready to shut the clinic.
It is worth knowing that you can click on the ticket machine and stop new patients from registering to be seen if you are getting too many coming in to cope with.
I usually have a couple run the clinic so that one can treat patients and one can make the pet treats to sell (these can make quite a bit of money, so are worth doing). Once made, add them to the vet fridge thing and sims will come in and buy them. Your vet skill increases by seeing patients or making the goodies, so you can switch your sims around if you want, say, the hubby to make treats one day and the wifey to make treats the next. Sometimes I will have them both treat pets at the same time if it gets really busy.
If you don't want to make the clinic a family affair you can hire staff to help out. They are not brilliant, but not too bad, and you can specify which tasks you want them to do.
You got that right. There are electives at the university for that.