are you using the mood lamp in the game ? ( I know that caused some problems for some sims in players games before ) if you have the lamp in that game turn the lamp off
for the work issues that can be a corrupt work outfit ( the firefighter career and the ghost busters are broken even my firefighter looses some job experience because the call for some of the calls emergency cancelled out ) for a corrupt work outfit take your sim to the dresser-plan outfit if the sim has only one work outfit plan a new work outfit if the sim already has more than one delete the extra ones instead