Re: Freelance Painter Issue?

@Psychotps I also had this happening with my main sim (level 10 painter for many many sim years - I play with aging off). I found it annoying, as my response was 'she could do this in her sleep, and makes more than that with a single painting normally'....

Due to the maturity of this sim in the field, I assumed she would breeze through. I queued tasks up with this in mind - somewhat pushing through (too easy to get delayed if I spread it out, and I missed a deadline that way). Doing it this way I ran into the same thing you did. A couple of the tasks would be approved just fine, but one would have to be re-done - one or two times. And sometimes two would need to be re-done. 

So I was also not happy with the freelancer career.

But, as @PugLove888 stated, I think this is by design - to give a bit of push-back and to make sims like mine unable to breeze through like I planned.

So... I tried a new approach.

• First, I if a sim was not to level 10 yet, I would recommend taking gigs a couple of levels below that. This way the sim is not at all on the edge of being qualified for the task, so completing it successfully is not such a challenge.
• I tracked her closely and solidly tracked each goal beginning to end. Then I sent it for approval and tracked that also.
• I also tracked how well-prepared she was for top notch work for each task. I made sure that all of her needs were well over half / solidly in the green the entire time she worked on the task. I think this was the most important part.
• You will also have better success if the sim is inspired. You can add inspired moodlet items from the painter career into the area your sim is working.

For me, when I approached it as mentioned above, I had much better success at accomplishing the goals and having them approved.

Keep in mind EA may be trying to reflect real life a bit with this career. As a freelance web designer irl, I can tell you that no matter how well done some tasks are, a some clients will drive you to drink. Period. 🍸

I hope this helps some. I'd love to hear how it goes! ☕