The Great Career Imbalance

I don't really care what job the premades have. But I do keep track of what jobs and level my sims have in my biggest save because they are too many to remember :)

I was just thinking of something related to this the other day actually, although it had more to do with townies than premades - and the opposite, but there are so many single household sims created by the game that just run around unemployed, like what's the point of that? If they all got a job within a little while then maybe but there are so many elder townies my sims have known since they where YA's and they never were assigned a job in the game.
There is simply no need for that many unemployed unplayed sims.

I wonder what the ratio between unemployment and employment is among the townies. Staggering in my saves, that's for sure.

In the one game I'm playing rotationally, with the premade characters, I change their jobs to match their aspirations. Otherwise, I don't much care.

I change the careers for many of the premades, especially the single ones, just in case my Sims get romantically interested in one of them. :)

Yes, the career imbalance bothers me. Gameplay mechanics in the game are imbalanced altogether. You’ll only find clubs in Windenburg, you’ll only find lot traits in San Myshuno, you’ll only find pets in Brindleton Bay, you’ll only find sims with reputations in Del Sol Valley, no existing sim has any character value traits, etc.

I usually remedy this by using a custom save file, but I haven’t found a single save that accommodates my very specific play style.

@elanorbreton I loaded a couple of the households I remember having registered with the Ministry of Labour, and they all still had their job descriptions:

Here are some, I don't include all.

I play a lot of my own sims but I don't worry about sims that I'm not playing.

I do pick various different careers for my own households though there are some repeats.

@Auroraskies thanks so much for coming back to confirm that. I will be able to register my self-employed sims again with confidence!

I honestly never thought of it. I don’t touch pre mades, other than deleting them if I don’t feel they should exist in a particular save.
In my game their live is their own.
Sure, I have my sims interact with them and ask what kind of jobs they have, sometimes even date one, but other than that I go nowhere near the pre mades’ set traits, aspirations or careers.
I will always create my own sims if I need them to be in a specific job or have distinctive traits for story telling purposes.

most of my sims are stay at home sims no carer or job since i use the money cheat in the game