[DU] Cannot Switch Branch in Culinary Career With Mixology certificate

lahawkin​ You certainly can do both branches of any career associated with a university degree.  Earning a degree gives you a leg up with careers and you start the career at lever 7 or 8 depending on the degree.  Then once you max that career, you can quit and go back to choose the career again, this time starting at the usual lower level (1-4) and then you work your way up to the choice level and choose the other side of the degree.    The key to making it work is paying attention when you choose your career after graduation.  Those careers will usually have 2 entries in the panel.  One is the normal start at lever 1-4 and the other will be specific jobs associated with your sim's degree that start at level 7 or 8 which are highlighted with red text when you look at them.  One thing you still need to do is the prerequisites/daily tasks (like the Scientist career still has eureka moments you have to complete for promotion and make serums).

Hope this helps.

I was told that if I had Romeo (per my example in the initial post) go to university and get his Culinary Degree he will be able to enter the Chef branch then. Perhaps MapleSimmer​ or CGrant56​ could confirm since that was the recommendation I got in our chat? I have him enrolled and in his first semester currently, so I cannot personally confirm yet.

Hi, you mentioned something about doing both branches if you get your degree from a Distinguished University.  Can you confirm that? I'm new to University play and I thought that it limited you to one branch? 

I can confirm that my sim who got a mixology certificate and got a job as a mixologist using that certificate can not join the culinary career at the bottom when he quits his job as a mixologist, he can only rejoin as a mixologist.

While I know that if you choose a branch through gameplay you can not go down below that branch to go the other way, however, if you join a career using a university degree, you can either join a branch directly using the related degree or join the underlying career at the bottom, which lets you do both branches (one of the advantages of doing a degree in DU). I would think that a mixology certificate should work the same way as a degree as you earn it with DU; i.e. once you quit your career you should be able to rejoin the culinary career or rejoin the mixology branch.

Note that I have all the packs/kits and play on Windows 10 and am on game version  1.124.63.1020. 

Best regards,
Jennifer