I'm finding making money too easy.

Painting pays way too much and is way too easy. You have to limit yourself on it, or just not do it. Some of my painters could whip out a masterpiece worth 12,000(painted in under an hour). It's ridiculous. My writing sims struggled for a long time and they were only making 9'000 a day off royalties. Then there's musicians which got hit with a big nerf hammer in TS4 and now they can barely make any kind of money.