Do I have to own a pet clinic?

I think you have to buy a clinic, pretty sure it works exactly the same as retail lots, restaurants and stuff.

"samemie;c-16105768" wrote:
I think you have to buy a clinic, pretty sure it works exactly the same as retail lots, restaurants and stuff.

Well, it sucks. Why can’t we have an option to just work in a clinic? I would like to just be an employee. I don’t want to own my own clinic.

"ZhaguiSimmer;c-16105949" wrote:
Make them an employee instead.

If that works like the retail system, your sim will be unemployed the second you play him as an active household.

Once I tried to hire my own sims for my business and when I would play them, they would be set as unemployed...

I agree that it would be nice to have the option for sims who can't afford a whole new lot to be able to be employed as a vet too, but also there are things about the vet career that I think are far better than restaurants. When I first made a sim own a restaurant I was very disappointed to see my sim couldn't actually work as the chef or anything, whereas at least with this your sim can work as the vet in their own clinic. I guess they could have done it either way, either making an active career (like GTW) or making a business and they just happened to do it this way. There are pros and cons to each. I know it's not exactly what you want but you could just cheat enough money for them to buy and build a vet lot and then pretend like they're working for someone higher up?

"Dannydanbo;c-16106060" wrote:

"PrincessVee;d-927034" wrote:
Don’t get me wrong, the pet clinics sound fun. (They sound a lot (and I mean a lot) like restaurants though, but that’s a topic for a different conversation.)
However, after reading the blog and watching the trailer, I was left a little confused. Do we have to buy a pet clinic to be a veterinarian? Can’t we just be a veterinarian without owning a clinic? My sims are not all rich. They can’t afford extra $20000+

Why would you just want to work in the clinic and not be the vet? What would you do, mop up the pet pee? If it were possible to just be an employee, you'd still probably be doing the same stuff anyway.

Because I’m not interested in only having rich vets. It’s like having all careers but being the boss in all of them. They don’t even build up to it.
Also some of us play rotational and we want more than one sim to be vets, and the only way for us to do that is by owning two different clinics.

"Dannydanbo;c-16106098" wrote:
I have to admit, I don't get this wanting to be just an employee and not the owner/manager/vet of a clinic. It's like wanting a fleshed out teaching/school EP and only wanting to play as the custodian. Where's the challenge?

I totally do want my sim to be a vet and own her own clinic some day, but I don't want to cheat her into it. The way I see it, she'll be a vet in training for now. Then she'll buy her own clinic when she's older.

That's annoying, I would've preferred for my Sim to just be a vet and not have to own a clinic too since most of my Sims aren't rich.

"Toadette12;c-16106126" wrote:
That's annoying, I would've preferred for my Sim to just be a vet and not have to own a clinic too since most of my Sims aren't rich.

Yes, that. And the fact that we can’t have more than one vet per saved game, unless they all belong to the same household or build a clinic per vet

"Dannydanbo;c-16106135" wrote:

"Orchid13;c-16106104" wrote:

"Dannydanbo;c-16106060" wrote:

"PrincessVee;d-927034" wrote:
Don’t get me wrong, the pet clinics sound fun. (They sound a lot (and I mean a lot) like restaurants though, but that’s a topic for a different conversation.)
However, after reading the blog and watching the trailer, I was left a little confused. Do we have to buy a pet clinic to be a veterinarian? Can’t we just be a veterinarian without owning a clinic? My sims are not all rich. They can’t afford extra $20000+

Why would you just want to work in the clinic and not be the vet? What would you do, mop up the pet pee? If it were possible to just be an employee, you'd still probably be doing the same stuff anyway.

Because I’m not interested in only having rich vets. It’s like having all careers but being the boss in all of them. They don’t even build up to it.
Also some of us play rotational and we want more than one sim to be vets, and the only way for us to do that is by owning two different clinics.

You could start with a clinic that has the minimum amount of equipment, one exam table, one surgical machine and one lab to make medicine. The struggle could be doing other boring jobs in order to save money to open your own clinic. As for having two different clinics, you could have one small clinic in each world just starting out with the bare minimum. No need to have all rich vets or any for that matter,

Doesn’t change the fact that I need to build more than one clinic. Doesn’t change the fact that my Sims can’t be co workers, but that are forced to compete with each other instead. Doesn’t change the fact that you are not even a vet, you are just a sim that owns a place and that automatically turned them into vets. It’s not a career.

"Dannydanbo;c-16106148" wrote:
Some of you people are never happy. With Dine Out, you could own the restaurant but not be the chef or hire family and people complained and still do. So, now in Cats & Dogs, you can own the business, be the vet, hire, train and discipline other sims, even your own family, and still it's not good enough. You don't want to own the clinic or be the vet, you want to be an employee in someone else's clinic. I think some of you are never going to be happy because you don't want to be happy. I don't know, maybe you think you don't deserve to be happy. Its puzzling.

What? You can be a vet without owning a clinic. I want sims that are vets not business men , we already have that career