The Great Career Imbalance

I had considered changing some, but then I figured all of my sims doing basically all but the base game careers balances it.

I change a very few Sims because... they should be. And because somewhere along the ride Maxis stopped. Bella has a job for example. Vlad has not. I have in my starter save made him a high-ranking local politician; seems suitable to be a behind the scenes person who has ran the same town for hundreds of years. For example.

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!