My sims are not all about careers. Most of them do have careers, but I level them up to what makes sense for them and their story. I'm a storyteller at heart, so for example my sim Jacqueline is very insecure about her body right now. She's in the athletic career and still a locker room attendant (since she just started), but she goes to the gym regularly to lose more weight and get ever more thinner so she can be society's ideal. Meanwhile, she'll level up in her career so it's a double-edged sword. She does great in her career, but her personal life worsens. Storytelling like this makes play much more fun for me. It also keeps me from marrying everyone off for the sake of it.
