So my Sim is a Freelance Artist. I'm not playing with any mods or anything. I took on a job to create characters for a video game... it required painting level 6 or 7... and was supposed to pay around $3,xxx simoleons. There are 2 possible issues here: Either the job ended 2 days earlier than it should have, OR the deadline wasn't displaying properly. I know when I took the job, it seemed like it was really short (2 days?). I think I accepted it in the early hours of Thursday, but I'm not sure. Friday rolled around and in the wee hours it said I needed to wrap up my contract. So I pulled up the job window to see how much was left and it said Sunday at 2am, which was still 2 days away. Then by like 7am on Friday (it might have been 2am - she was asleep and it was going fast, so I have no idea the actual time) it told me I had failed! Unfortunately, once the job ends it's gone, so I don't have any record of which job it was.
But to help you find the particular job, it was for - 2 character designs for a video game, payout was around $3,000 something.
There were 2 tasks: study materials and submit 2 character designs and have them accepted. (I was still in the editing phase of the 2nd one, but had completed the rest, in case that is relevant.)
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