OWNING YOUR OWN BUSINESS BUT YOUR UNEMPLOYED

"leetamme;c-16747782" wrote:
I think they should be able to register as self emloyed. That way it can cover retail, restaurant owners, street performors and street vendors.

Or arhaeologists with JA -- maybe you have a Sim who goes to dig up artifacts and sells them to finance their next trip, and writes books or paints on the side. (Before my Sim moved in Salim Benali then killed him off with bad pufferfish nigri >:) I had her painting to earn extra money.)

I really want self-employment back for my Sim writers/painters/musicians.

All these ideas on self-employed are fabulous, if only EA/Maxis would hear us. They make the money and we wait for content and problem fixes...

I just wish that we could promote employees in retail or host/chefs/servers to manager/Assistant Manager so we didn't have to be there

"SparklyBecca;c-16752402" wrote:
> @Mariefoxprice83 said:
> But there's no education career either, unless you use a mod. :(

Yeah, why isn't teaching a career? It was before wasn't it? I miss some of the buildings we used to have in the towns, like the supermarket, school, etc

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was in both Sims 2 and 3. I've been using Neia's mod for it recently because it was one of my most-wanted careers along with the Military. I've also got Architecture and Law. Definitely going to get this self-employed one though, and the business owner (I don't have the packs for the other options).

Neia's career mods are becoming as valuable to me as MCCC.

Yeah, I agree OP. It really annoys me that my self-employed Sim keeps getting a whim to get a job. My Sim owns a restaurant, a vet, & retail shop. I wont' put her in a career. They should have a self-employment option or something to satisfy whatever makes that whim keep coming back, over and over again.

I agree - if you own your own business or even do freelance from home - your sim needs to be considered employed period. Especially in this day and age. They need to give us that option. Seriously!!!!

I know!! I have a sims that owns a restaurant and she can’t work In it. And I have a sim that owns a vet clinic and she can work as a vet there but is unemployed. Why is vet not a carreer ?

I'm disappointed with this too. Everything they add to this system is going to be "unemployed". If it's not a career, then it's a hobby that makes money on the side. Vet as a hobby? Retail as a hobby? Who purchases, manages and runs a bakery as a hobby?

I made some suggestions for Self-Employment over in the Ideas forum a while ago: Create A Job Tool. The idea would let the sim who rings up to purchase the building the "owner and manager" of the venue (retail, restaurants, vet and whatever else they add), while still allowing all members of the family to work at the venue.

School kids already have two lines of code set up to show what they do under their career, School AND if they have a part time job, it shows that too. Sims who own Retail AND have a full time job should show BOTH under their job descriptions - just like the kids get. I have a Celebrity Chef who also owns a Bakery. I would like to see his business owner in his description somewhere too.

I suppose they see it as a very small thing - that word unemployed - but it really puts a damper on me using these systems as a career, cause they're not seen that way by the game. My sims work their little butts off away from home and they still get that "unemployed" tag attached to them which gives them inappropriate whims and moodlets. The game thinks they're unemployed, but we don't!

Bring on Self-Employment! Preferably in a way that lets us choose what they do, when they do it, and how. Full time, part time, crafting, services and tuition, (like in my link above).

I think I would hate it if jobs were unavailable. I don't even want to think about what an accurate Writer career would look like...

"Your Sim has written a dozen masterpiece-level novels, but unfortunately, the market just isn't hot for mysteries or fantasy right now. Why don't you try another time?"

I get plenty of rejection letters in real life. Let my Sims have their success. I have vampires, cowplants, and fire ghosts to really mess of their lives if they need some drama.

I do like that the game recognizes "Stay-at-home parent" as a job. It fits in well with owning one's own business, actually. I tend to have larger families with different members jumping in and out to run the store. Some have other jobs and some don't.