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More active careers please!
manicobsessive
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Please, please, pleeeease EA, can more of the careers be active/semi active. 
Especially if you're playing a single sim household, it's incredibly boring to have them disappear off for virtually the whole sim day and not be able to actually go to work with them.
Work is such a huge part of alot of people's lives, and not getting to go to work with your sim and meet their colleagues, control how they get on etc, is such a shame. I never choose rabbit hole careers for my single sims or sim heirs for this reason, and it's really limiting.
I'd love to play as a chef for example, but because the career isn't actually even semi active, you don't 'play' as a chef, and it could be a huge part of your story!
Who else feels this way?
Especially if you're playing a single sim household, it's incredibly boring to have them disappear off for virtually the whole sim day and not be able to actually go to work with them.Work is such a huge part of alot of people's lives, and not getting to go to work with your sim and meet their colleagues, control how they get on etc, is such a shame. I never choose rabbit hole careers for my single sims or sim heirs for this reason, and it's really limiting.
I'd love to play as a chef for example, but because the career isn't actually even semi active, you don't 'play' as a chef, and it could be a huge part of your story!
Who else feels this way?
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-Yes, person I barely know, you have my blessing to hang out with Johnny Zest.
-No person with the mean, hot-headed and self-absorbed traits, I don't think you should get married.
I also dream of a playable office job hahah
Yeah, sorry, that is what I was getting at. I have noticed that careers they add now are semi active, which is great, but yeah, I would love to have some of the existing rabbit holes as active careers.
That's a kinda cool idea.
I haven't played that career yet. What's wrong with it?
Sometimes I want to hyper focus on one Sim, while managing the other Sims in the same households. I personally love the work at home options. But sometimes I do enjoy going to work with them. I need things to help keep my other Sims occupied, whiling working on a particular Sim. So, rabbit holes come in handy for that. I also would like various items that build a Sims skill, while keeping them occupied for a time.
- Culinary: Saloon, social events and restaurants
- Entertainer: Saloon, social events and Museum (musicist branch)+theater lot?
- Painter: Museum
- Babysitting: Residential +daycare lot?
- Barista: Cafe
- Fast-food employee: Restaurants
- Retail employee: Retail
- Style Influencer: (Clothes) Retail
New active careers:
- Forest Ranger (New): National Park
- Diarist (New): Residential
- Librarian (New): Library
- Guide (New): Museum
- Analyst (New): Museum
- Museologist (New): Museum
In lack of that, since I don't think they'll add any to the base game, I second the idea for semi-active careers. With those you can always set up offices, and play them as if they were active, especially if you have get together and can make clubs for the career.
You can't finish the gigs because the final evaluation screen doesn't pop up
that, too. The nurse and orderly in Get to Work are useless. My doctor is tired of doing everything.
yes me to
-Painting: the work from home assignment can be painting some paintings, maybe of a specific type.
-Writing: The work from home assignment can be writing a book. Or, if a journalist, it could be interviewing a certain number of people. Perhaps it could be interviewing people at a certain type of location (e.g. interview three people at a nightclub).
-Entertainer: The work from home assignment can be writing a routine for comedy or writing a jingle for music. Both career tracks can have assignments to perform live at a lounge.
-Astronaut-The assignment can be to work on the rocket ship, or to go on a mission to space.
-Criminal-Hack or pickpocket. Practice mischief for lower levels.
-Yes, person I barely know, you have my blessing to hang out with Johnny Zest.
-No person with the mean, hot-headed and self-absorbed traits, I don't think you should get married.