I had a similar problem with my adults not getting jobs and being told to do their homework. I wasn't sure if it was an Insim issue or an Inteen issue, BUT it was still a problem.
I used a workaround to get my adults jobs by shift+clicking the newspaper and the option for Careers (I believe is the name of the option) showed up. Give your sims a job through that option. Should be able to get a job like that.
Also, I used the boolprop cheat for the workaround, but it worked.
Other than that, get HCDU
here and run it to see if you have other mod conflicts.
Hope you can resolve the problem soon.
