I remember that I could take holiday from work in the past that I can go to University class but right now I can't find where I could do so, maybe because my Scientist only work Monday to Friday and it is Saturday right now.

Hey @Schwarzbart00, To take a vacation day off work, your Sim just needs to pull up the Household section on their mobile phone and select the Take a Vacation Day option. You'll only see this option available on working days, so it won't appear for you during your weekend.

Taking Holiday from work for University?

11 Replies

EA_Solaire
Community Manager
4 years ago
Hey @Schwarzbart00,

To take a vacation day off work, your Sim just needs to pull up the Household section on their mobile phone and select the Take a Vacation Day option. You'll only see this option available on working days, so it won't appear for you during your weekend.
Schwarzbart00
4 years ago
thx so it is as suspected. It would be still good to be able to take holiday for multiple days in one go like when you go to a vacation.
EA_Solaire
Community Manager
4 years ago
@Schwarzbart00

If you have Outdoor Retreat, you should also see an option in the mobile phone to Take a Vacation under the Travel tab. This allows you to set up vacation time for multiple days without having to call into work each day.
Schwarzbart00
4 years ago
sadly "Take a Vacation" under Travel is grey out when enrolled in a university curse.
EA_Solaire
Community Manager
4 years ago
@Schwarzbart00

Unfortunately it would be fairly detrimental to your Sims grades to take a vacation in the middle of a course, so your Sim would need to wait until the end of the current term in order to take a vacation. But once the term is up, that option will be available again 🙂
Schwarzbart00
4 years ago
but the University is exact the reason I need for extended time holidays from work ^^.
EA_Solaire
Community Manager
4 years ago
@Schwarzbart00

Gotchya! That Take a Vacation feature has your Sim travel to a separate destination so that wouldn't be beneficial for your Sim if you're looking to take time off work to focus on school. Instead, you'll want to use the option to call into work using your vacation time off work, which you would have to do each day.

It can be a bit tedious to call in every day, so I'll definitely send your feedback up about a feature for being able to take multiple days off at once.
Schwarzbart00
4 years ago
thanks! Sadly it is a must because the worktime Mo-Fr 10 AM -7 PM only would allow the first class time slot 8:00 - 9:25 (or what it is) . Also I don't want to quit the job now because I'm hoping that during this 2 week I manage to unlock Career Hoper.
simsplayer818
Hero
4 years ago
@Schwarzbart00 You can actually do this by being a bit cheeky and going to work late/leaving early. I managed to achieve it with an athlete Sim who was also at Uni. Once she was at work I selected "Work Hard" to try and make up for being late or leaving early.
It also helps a lot if you purchase the "Professional Slacker" reward trait which I think costs around 4000 reward points (could be wrong on price, rubbish memory!). With the professional slacker trait you can get away with anything. I have a scientist Sim who literally just visits Sixam and rarely completes work tasks, but she was already at the top of the career anyway.
xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Yeah, I did this for a gardener. Luckily that's a WFH job so I didn't have any problems with her doing her work assignments between classes.
The only issue I had was a small one, LOL. She had to quit to be re-hired at a higher level because of her degree. :D
(Honestly, I could have had her quit her job for Uni but she needed the money! she had a teen brother she was supporting.)