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Cinebar's avatar
6 years ago

Diversity, Where Are BlueCollar (Physical Labor) and Service Careers?

There are many types of careers in TS4 but most require a pc at home or going to library or somewhere to use one.
What isn't in game are blue collar jobs and or service jobs for our own Sims.

Plumber, Carpenter, builder, Painter (actual paints buildings), Waitress/waiter/hostess, Mechanic, general laborer, Clerk/cashier, Hotel houskeepers or maids, not everyone wants to be a CEO, and or an academic which we don't even have any of those do we? Such as professor or dean or teacher etc. ETA: Babysitter, care giver, nanny (our own Sim), housekeeper (for hire) to individual famlies, stay at home daycare worker, long distance truck driver, delivery Sim, can deliver anything, (has to own vechicle), Uber Driver, Taxi driver. Electrician, Welder, Iron worker, Pavers, Landscapers.

Apprentice jobs, interns of those careers, like a helper, manual laborer like someone who installs floors, dry wall, those who actually do the work.

Diversity should also include the rest of the world and those backbone jobs that make the world go around.

Just asking as I'm sort of tired of social networking careers being the only type of stay at home or work from home and or hands on jobs that are only for the doctor etc. Let's include everyone and the things some people actually enjoy doing and make a pretty good living doing.

ETA: Expand jobs to include more physical labor jobs. And I will leave you with this tune: She works hard for the money, so hard for it honey, so you better treat her right.~~~~
  • tcikes's avatar
    tcikes
    New Spectator
    Yep, we need more of these types of jobs in the game. That's why I was thrilled when they enabled teen jobs for adults. I'm not fond of all my sims being astronauts, super villains, A-list celebrities and secret agents...
  • "luxsylvan;c-17232489" wrote:
    This is a great idea! It also makes the game more immersive, because maybe your sim needs a plumber and the person who comes to fix it is your other sim, who is a plumber. I'd LOVE that sort of continuity. Sims having service jobs and blue collar jobs, and then working those jobs when I'm playing another family.


    It could work like some opportunitites in TS3 where they call your SIm to come out and fix their problem. But on a daily basis like a fireman in TS3. Just as examples of how it could be implemented. In TS2 I built a garage for a mechanic and made him work on those junkers and pretend he sold them because on a home lot you can't sell fixed up cars, lol. However, he could still run his home garage and sell things like tools, snacks from a vending machine and many other things all while his 'customers' hung out in the office and waiting room while he worked on cars. I would like to see that sort of open career in TS4 or a later game. His little rooms were above his garage, off limits to those who stopped by. It was a lot of fun.
  • Having tried the door to door sales bit a few times I can say from experience that even if there were no loading screens it's not a job a sim would want. Too easy to have negative income.