Share your wins and fails when running a small business from the Businesses & Hobbies pack. I will start.

Maker Space

Additional Packs Used

• Eco Lifestyle

Employee Tasks

• Mentor
• Run Classes & Lectures

Owner Tasks

• Clean
• Scrap Crafts
• Repair

Customer Tasks

• Attend classes and lectures
• Fabricate
• Handiness

Set Up

I created three classrooms (woodworking, candle making, and fabrication). I hired two employees （one for lectures and one for mentoring). I trained the employees by giving them lectures so they could reach level 5 of both the handiness and fabrication skills.  I also had a small shop in the front, but no one shopped from it because I didn't set the task for shopping.

Problems I Ran Into

• You can't mentor on the candle making station. The option isn't available to mentor Sims.
• The fabrications classes require level 5 of the rocket science skill. I only had level 5 of the fabrication skill. The employees also only had level 5 of the fabrication skill. I didn't train them in rocket science. [BH] Several classes/lectures don't work | EA Forums - 11968151
• Customers don't use the fabricator or the candle making station during the fabrication class.
• Customers don't finish their crafts. They always abandon them.
• The candle making stations weren't autonomously cleared. [BH] [GT] Certain objects aren't cleaned by employees/club members | EA Forums - 12239563
• I got two last exceptions related to the pack.

Final Verdict

Even though there were a good number of problems, I will classify this business as a win because it mostly functioned. The Sims 4 is a buggy game so I'm trying to be fair.