The darn wants should at least make sense, I could deal with them (even though I liked the whims system very much) if they just made sense. My sim came home from a date, where he'd just gotten engaged...gets an immediate want to break up with him. What??? As for the Dead end job fear, most of my sims work for themselves, and are technically unemployed, while others take the manual labor job just to pay the bills while they do other things they like or make better money during the week. (side jobs, Freelance, etc) So the dead end job Rarely applies! So it just sits there, affecting my sim now and then. If I get too annoyed with it, I have my sim take an 'errand' job in Finchwick/Cottage Living, then my sims can talk about it to a friend and it goes away.