Sometimes I think that there are so many missed opportunities when it comes to careers in game. There are too many computer careers, not enough full time manual careers and some (in my mind) glaring omissions. So if you could add careers - just careers not new packs - what would you add? Here are some of mine: Figure skater (seasons)A semi active career using the uniforms we already have in game and got with seasons. Work from home options should include skating (of course) but also going to the gym or working out in other ways, blogging or updating to simstagram and just like other athlete careers - check out the competition. Cross pack compatibility with Get Famous could add other options, like doing commercials (acting), or just earning fame points. And with spa-day installed wellness activities could be added to the list of work from home options too. Fashion model (Moschino)It seems a missed opportunity to add photographer and not model to the pack. A freelance gig-career would work great for this. Yoga instructor (Spa-day)An active freelance gig-career where you can give lessons for money in parks, gyms, spas, beaches or even at home. The higher the skill the better pay. If you are skilled enough you could get recurring jobs at a gym or spa.High school teacher (High school years) An active career where you teach or work in administration at the school. Teaching classes, helping students and monitoring their behaviour. Librarian (base game)An active or semi active career where you work in your local library. Clean up books, talk to visitors, give advice on books, call maintenance when needed, tell people not to bother those who are working, kick people out who are playing computer games on the computers instead of working...Garden designer (dream home decorator): Same career but focused on gardens, parks and other outdoor spaces. Obviously a lot of debug gardening objects would need to be put in the base game for this to be realistic, but the job itself should be easy enough to make functional. So what jobs would you add if you could?

I would love separate nursing career from the doctor career. Can be a rabbit hole career. Doesn't have to be a 'go to/with' career.

Parks maintenance - basically clean the parks of leftover foods, dog poo, forgotten clay tablets and clay clumps, clean around dustbins, collect the leaf piles in autumn, shovel snow in winter, plant new trees and harvestables, add new playground equipment, fix anything broken, etc. Bike shop repair - fix some broken spikes, oil the chain, add new alarm bell to it, change tires, etc. Street portrait/caricature artist - sit in a park and wait for customers to paint their portrait or caricature for a feePrivate piano or violin teacher - have children or adults come to your house for 1on1 lessonsProfessional darts player - you play darts a lot and train for tournaments and occasionally take part in rabbithole competitions and maybe earn a title or somethingGardening - I loved how we could trim the hedges and roses in TS2, would love to have something like that back. We basically can't have an active decorative garden right now, only for vegetables and those lame flower bushes.

@Stina1701A I would love a separate nurse career. It just makes sense. You don't necessarily become a nurse because you want to become a doctor, sometimes you want to be a nurse. @crocobaura Those sound like fantastic ideas. I think the darts player could work as a gig-career/hobby that you make a living off by signing up to competitions. The street portrait could be a freelance thing. I would love a parks maintenance/gardening career that isn't a build-up to be a botanist, but just a gardener, preferably active in a park of your choosing. And the bike shop repair sounds awesome. Would fit well in a car-pack with a mechanic career as well. You could own a bike repair shop or a garage that fixes cars.

Get to Work need an update with a Fashon Designer careerIt could include the sewing machine with the sewing skill and a drawing board.Island Living could include the Oceanography career

@Briana2425 I would love to have and build a beauty salon, like we did in sims 2 where we could run a business from home! Better yet if the chair could also work in public spaces so that we could build hair salons to go and visit. It would be a great addition to GTW or possibly as a part of a Hotel pack as lots of hotels offer beauty services too. I'd even buy a stuff pack named beauty salon if they made it where you could run it as a business at home, or at another location and work on it yourself or hire others to do it.

Career suggestions - which careers would you add?

Stina1701A
Seasoned Novice
11 months ago
I would love separate nursing career from the doctor career. Can be a rabbit hole career. Doesn't have to be a 'go to/with' career.
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
11 months ago
Parks maintenance - basically clean the parks of leftover foods, dog poo, forgotten clay tablets and clay clumps, clean around dustbins, collect the leaf piles in autumn, shovel snow in winter, plant new trees and harvestables, add new playground equipment, fix anything broken, etc.
Bike shop repair - fix some broken spikes, oil the chain, add new alarm bell to it, change tires, etc.
Street portrait/caricature artist - sit in a park and wait for customers to paint their portrait or caricature for a fee
Private piano or violin teacher - have children or adults come to your house for 1on1 lessons
Professional darts player - you play darts a lot and train for tournaments and occasionally take part in rabbithole competitions and maybe earn a title or something
Gardening - I loved how we could trim the hedges and roses in TS2, would love to have something like that back. We basically can't have an active decorative garden right now, only for vegetables and those lame flower bushes.
JesLet40
Seasoned Ace
11 months ago
@Stina1701A I would love a separate nurse career. It just makes sense. You don't necessarily become a nurse because you want to become a doctor, sometimes you want to be a nurse.

@crocobaura Those sound like fantastic ideas. I think the darts player could work as a gig-career/hobby that you make a living off by signing up to competitions. The street portrait could be a freelance thing. I would love a parks maintenance/gardening career that isn't a build-up to be a botanist, but just a gardener, preferably active in a park of your choosing. And the bike shop repair sounds awesome. Would fit well in a car-pack with a mechanic career as well. You could own a bike repair shop or a garage that fixes cars.
Mk_2790
New Spectator
11 months ago
Get to Work need an update with a Fashon Designer career

It could include the sewing machine with the sewing skill and a drawing board.

Island Living could include the Oceanography career
JesLet40
Seasoned Ace
11 months ago
@Briana2425 I would love to have and build a beauty salon, like we did in sims 2 where we could run a business from home! Better yet if the chair could also work in public spaces so that we could build hair salons to go and visit. It would be a great addition to GTW or possibly as a part of a Hotel pack as lots of hotels offer beauty services too. I'd even buy a stuff pack named beauty salon if they made it where you could run it as a business at home, or at another location and work on it yourself or hire others to do it.
ChampandGirlie
New Spectator
11 months ago
I'd like to have art exhibitions as events where your characters can display, sell and for those wanting more crime, steal the art. It would give more to do with museums. You could also have art auctions or auctions for artifacts found in Jungle Adventure or collectibles. I saw someone else mention extracting artifacts from more worlds and I'd honestly like that too.

I agree that it would have made sense to add a fashion model career with Moschino or another concept. Adding a professional dancer career sounds like it would be easy enough.

Playable royalty as a career makes sense if they have a royalty pack. Wildlife management or zookeeper makes sense if they make a zoo pack.

If in doubt, add more careers. I generally like having any new careers because I do play with them and they keep things from getting too repetitive.
JesLet40
Seasoned Ace
11 months ago
@ChampandGirlie Oh, I'd love more things to do with museums and art in general. I find museums today is nothing useful, but imagine if they were a place for art exhibitions, art classes, archaeology classes or had guided tours? You could play an active career as a museum curator, and it could also be used for homework for discover university (visit a museum and get a guided tour) or school outings for high school years where the entire class would go.

I definitely like the idea of expanding the archaeology - could be a part of the jungle adventure, just an upgrade. Artifacts in every world, that are unique to that specific world. (old germanic findings in Windenburg, Nativa american in Chestnut grove, Roman artifacts in Tartosa...). Simultaneously they could add a real archaeology career to jungle adventure, and add archaeology to the classes at discover university.

So many great ideas!
ChampandGirlie
New Spectator
11 months ago
"JAL;c-18341665" wrote:
@ChampandGirlie Oh, I'd love more things to do with museums and art in general. I find museums today is nothing useful, but imagine if they were a place for art exhibitions, art classes, archaeology classes or had guided tours? You could play an active career as a museum curator, and it could also be used for homework for discover university (visit a museum and get a guided tour) or school outings for high school years where the entire class would go.

I definitely like the idea of expanding the archaeology - could be a part of the jungle adventure, just an upgrade. Artifacts in every world, that are unique to that specific world. (old germanic findings in Windenburg, Nativa american in Chestnut grove, Roman artifacts in Tartosa...). Simultaneously they could add a real archaeology career to jungle adventure, and add archaeology to the classes at discover university.

So many great ideas!

I would love all of this. I've been hoping they'll do something with the museums. I like museums but would like more gameplay for them. Really, I also like all of the other career ideas. I also agree about extending the ability to find more artifacts in the different worlds. That's a way to add more collectibles for those wanting them.
thefirsttemplar
Rising Scout
11 months ago
I'd like to see careers exclusive to supernaturals where their supernatural advancement will also be required for career advancement.

Aliens could get access to a whole different astronaut themed career, getting beamed up when they head to work.

Spellcasters could work for a circle of mages, advancing to eventually be the leader of the circle. This could optionally even be an active career practised in a wizard tower added to the magic realm. Which could add some proper mage robes and hats too so grand mages won't just look like some random hobo like in the main pack. (That hobo could get an update to a proper outfit too.)

Could also be neat to see some sort of super hero and super villain career added for a new supersim supernatural, but which some other super naturals could also take on due to their powers. Vampires and Werewolves could. (werewolves after they get options to actually look intimidating that is.)

Could be an active career with like some sort of tower of justice for the heroes and an evil lair for the villains, where they could monitor some stuff, train, talk with fellow heroes/villains, spar, and also go out on a mission which would be a rabbit hole thing.
Could also play into secret identities, which could be discovered if they are careless with showing their powers.
Like if Lady Supersim starts flying around on her family vacation with her husband and kids, now everyone knows Lady supersim is actually Simone, who they thought was a stay at home mother.
Like with other active careers you could just let them go without following them to work too.
JesLet40
Seasoned Ace
11 months ago
@rhalius I don't play with occults much, so I've never thought much about that, but you're absolutely right, they should have careers tied to them. I love the idea of a separate astronaut career for aliens that are unique for them. Perhaps a scientist career as well - trying to prove that humans exist.