Career panel bugged empty after completing/cancelling an odd job.
Product: The Sims 4
Platform: PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? Most recent, up to date.
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All except Journey to Batuu and most kits.
How can we find the bug ourselves? Register with the ministry of labor as self employed, accept and complete an odd job. EDIT: After further testing, completing/cancelling an odd job while not self employed also no longer shows the sim as unemployed and they can no longer register with the ministry of labor, but they are able to join a regular career and get other odd jobs. Self employment will however be broken after accepting an odd job, no matter if you complete it, fail it or cancel it. EDIT2: I did even further testing, with a fresh repair, TS4 folder regenerated and a newly created sim with the following results: I had an adult sim enter a career and then choose an odd job via the phone. Once completing the odd job I quit their regular career via the phone. Career panel is again blank and does not show the sim as unemployed (nothing to interact with) and they could not register with the ministry of labor as self employed. I then changed the sim to be an elder in the earlier save state and did everything the same, except I retired instead of quitting their job. The career panel now shows the sim unemployed and they could again register with the ministry of labor as self employed. Functionality of the careers and odd jobs stays normal even if the panel is empty after doing an odd job/quitting their career, but they can't register for self employment.
What happens when the bug occurs? Career panel bugs out and shows as completely blank. If this happens while self employed, sims can't see any future odd jobs or self employment. Normal careers show up fine. Didn't test university progress.
What do you expect to see? The career panel goes back to showing self employment/unemployment and I would be able to see any accepted odd job. Accepting an odd job is not a promise to do more later and should not be considered by the game as being employed.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? No changes made to my system. This is my first time encountering this issue, but I did see this commented by a user in a separate bug report to a similar issue all the way back from 2021 when I looked this up yesterday.
Extra information:
No mods/CC, recently repaired game with a freshly generated sims 4 folder. I also went to Deaderpool's discord and got some people to try to replicate the issue while my EA App was having difficulty loading my games library for play. We found no other way to resolve the bug after it has happened, other than using MCCC to quit a job. We deducted that the game must somehow treat odd jobs as actual employment, since the game gave "This sim quit their job" message after selecting to quit job via the MCCC menu. This is also probably why it messes with self employment? This is a permanent bug as far as I can see once it happens, unless using cheats/mods to resolve it. Game repair, saving Sim as tray and reloading them to a fresh save etc. did nothing to bring back the career panel and it's functionality. EDIT: I have added a zip folder with saves and screenshots of the scenario as an adult with a career/quitting the career. I didn't add the save with the elder, because everything that way works as normal.
Google drive for save/screenshots/other: View and Download
Related or relevant: Bug report from 2021
