Unable to complete the Aspirations "Master Mixologist" if player chooses The Master Chef branch

Okay, that's why a lot of people are complaining about the repetitive tasks -- you have to do the same things over and over with different Sims at least until you get up to the level where you switch, or have two Sims in the household doing the same things at the same time if, say you want both the deluxe kitchen and the bar. That gets pretty tedious after a while. (Guess that's what I'll have my Sim couple doing once he ages up and moves in with his boyfriend; they're going to have the ultimate party pad.)

So this doesn't work for any career? We can't complete both branches of any career? Joxer, didn't you say that you could complete mixology first and then complete chef, but just not the other way around?

That's awful. Now I can't finish both the Food Aspirations. :( I'll see if I can find some cheat or mod to change the branch.

"FireWork1987;783268" wrote:
Sims cannot change the branch, so after chosen The Master Chef branch in its career, this sims can never complete the goal "Join the Mixology Branch of the Culinary Career" in the "Master Mixologist" Aspirations, which means player cannot complete the Aspirations - "Master Mixologist"



Its a Design Bug, please fix!

There's a cheat for that

Well, someone who becomes a level 10 mixologist can still become a master chef, just not vice versa. I think that's inconsistent.

It doesn't bother me much but it's nice to have the option to buy the emotion drinks, even if they are ridiculously expensive. It's a good money sink for very rich sims.

"JoxerTM22;12849799" wrote:
It's not unintended, it's not a bug, it's a design decision.
Real world aside, let's not mix careers and skills in the game. You can max all skills on one sim. You just can't specialize in both career branches.

What's with the condescending "Let's not" business? I'm not confused about the difference between a career and a skill.

I guess I fell into this trap.
One has to make the decision which branch (chef or mixologist) of the culinary career you wish to focus on BEFORE maxing out in either branch... Once you've maxed out in the chef branch, you can't return to pursue the mixologist branch to fulfill the Master Mixologist aspiration to achieve the Potion Master skill trait.
I maxed out the chef branch and tried quitting to find that I could only return to the profession beyond the point were I could pursue mixology. I tried going to the wishing well to wish for a promotion without making any donation, hoping that I could be demoted back to a previous point, but it hasn't worked out yet.

"pjericksim;14639356" wrote:
I guess I fell into this trap.
One has to make the decision which branch (chef or mixologist) of the culinary career you wish to focus on BEFORE maxing out in either branch... Once you've maxed out in the chef branch, you can't return to pursue the mixologist branch to fulfill the Master Mixologist aspiration to achieve the Potion Master skill trait.
I maxed out the chef branch and tried quitting to find that I could only return to the profession beyond the point were I could pursue mixology. I tried going to the wishing well to wish for a promotion without making any donation, hoping that I could be demoted back to a previous point, but it hasn't worked out yet.

If you use mods, there's a mod for that now that lets you change branches http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=550501

Can someone please finally fix this issue? This is clearly a bug, it has been reported across various sites since 2014. The issue is still open e.g., here: answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/OPEN-Rejoining-a-Branched-Career/m-p/3532999#U3532999 and here: answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/NOT-FIXED-TECH-GURU-CAREER-STUCK-ON-LEVEL-4/m-p/5240984#U5240984.

It looks like like it may be caused by the Connections Trait Reward which causes the Sim to auto-start at a higher level which gets reported from Level 1 despite being Level 5+ already.

> @FireWork1987 said:
> Sims cannot change the branch, so after chosen The Master Chef branch in its career, this sims can never complete the goal "Join the Mixology Branch of the Culinary Career" in the "Master Mixologist" Aspirations, which means player cannot complete the Aspirations - "Master Mixologist"
>
> Its a Design Bug, please fix!

You don't ever have to choose the chef branch. If you choose the mixology brach, you are still working in the culinary career so you can get to level 8 which is all the Master Chef aspiration needs. That way you can complete both aspirations without cheats or mods. I did it in my game and it worked.