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Self-Employed and Happily Unemployed Careers

EP Compatible
Won't overwite any other careers
For adults, teens and elders.
Custom icons.
No chance cards (because they wouldn't work since Sims with these careers never actually go to work.)
One level, no promotions, demotions, etc.

What these careers do:

Give your business owning Sims a job as far as the game is concerned, but there are no hours, no pay, and no carpool will ever come. The point is that when you click on self-employed Sims' job info you'll see "Self-Employed" instead of "Unemployed" Also since the game will see them as having a job, they will no longer get those pesky job wants (because you know they already HAVE one, now the game will realize it too.)  

The Happily Unemployed Sim career is exactly the same as the Self-Employed career, except for the name and the icon. This is for housewife or retired Sims who don't WANT a job.

The only downside: Since the game reads these as a job where every day is a day off, every day you'll get the "Brandi has the day off today" pop up. Just close it and pretend it isn't there.  

When you give a Sim one of these careers you'll get a pop up that says the carpool will arrive at 2 pm, but it won't, ever.

These will appear in the regular job listings like any other career, or you can assign them with the Insimenator or Monique's computer, etc.

Enjoy!

- Judy
judy@epix.net

It annoys me when my sim is busy running her family or the family business my wants slot are take up by carrear wants. When is she to have the time. She;s exhausted.

What a great idea. Thanks a bunch for this.

Thanks Judy, this was really needed.

Is there any way to modify these in such a way where they would not show up in the paper or on the computer, but could still be given to a Sim by shift-clicking on the newspaper with boolprop testingcheatsenabled true (or InSIM or Monique's computer)? That way, one wouldn't have to worry about them getting in the way when trying to fulfil a sim's want to get a specific job...

Dadditude I don't think there's a way to do that, but Superfly would know if there is.  But, if you want to fulfill a specific job want, you can do that with boolprop or Insim or Monique's computer...  I guess you're talking about fulfilling it a little more honestly though?  The more custom careers you have the less chance you get of having the job you actually want pop up in the newspaper or computer.  That's actually why I just use Monique's computer all the time for jobs anymore.

This looks great. Owning their own business is a full time job of its own. Thanks.

nice one, it's a bind keeping my stay at home dad happy, this'll do nicely!
 
ta very muchly

'Fraid not. Changing the location of a career would probably involve altering career global files- something that isn't easily done (as I have been assured by Echo, from MTS2)

Great!  Thank you.

jphill11, I found one issue with these careers. I frequently use Tom's Clothing Tester to force pregnant teens to dress in other outfits besides Jase's defaults. Now the problem doesn't have anything to do with Inteen, it's the clothing tester. Anytime I click on the clothing tester I get an object error. I've checked the log file and the error is due to these 2 careers. It is happening because they don't have any outfits associated with them and the game can't figure out what to do. If I remove these careers then everything is back to normal. I figure it isn't really a problem under ordinary circumstances. Only if you click on the clothing tester, which needs to read all the outfits for all the installed careers. This had never come up before because all the other custom careers I have installed have work outfits associated with them. I thought you should know. :)

Very cool!

Much needed! Thanks :)

Perfect!  It was driving me nuts that business-owners kept wanting to get jobs.  I also hated having those housewives who I wanted to be rich and idle, but who kept hankerin' to get a job. A thousand thank yous!

Great idea! In real life, I don't know anyone who WANTS to work!:)

THis is great. Now my stay at home moms will be satisfied with the job wants. Phew!!

Thanks a bunch!
Now I can have a que of unemployed thugs cluttering up Pleasantville! *evil laughter* :D

Brilliant idea. Thankyou.

Thanks so much for this. :D :D It's a great idea.

I thought selling a painting for 500 simoleans WAS a job. Thanks for this. Now If we can just get a reward for being a prent under the point rewards. Every other job gets one except stay at home parents. Anyone up to it?

Good work !  :)

Great Idea. It's just to hard running a business & going to work.

Thank you very much. It is exactly what I want in my game.

Great idea!  Thanks very much

wow! What a cool carrer!

Thanks - these sound great!

Thanks very much for providing us with this option! It will be a huge help, and the carpool popup is just a very minor thing, really! Terrificx work! Thanks again.:-)

Cool. One of mine gets royalties from his past career as a J-rock idol so this is just the thing, as well as for old-money sims who don't need nor want to work.

Thanks a heap!

I was always annoyed with the un-employed status when I ran a business.

Cheers!

Great work! Never even thought of this..

Thank You... this makes it a whole lot better wants-wise...
If anyone at Maxis reads any of this; common sense is the trick.... no "scratch puppy, nail it to a door" Expansion Pack is needed... :jester:  just basic common sense...

Just to add:
Maxis should have included a carrear for lazy sims/ sims who dont need to work!

Thanks! These will be very useful! I've been looking for something like this for a while. :)

OMG this is EXACTLY what I have been looking for!!!!  I was wondering if anyone else thought it was dumb that business owners show up as "Unemployed" where in reality they work their butts off at their business...  I've scoured the Internet looking for some kind of "Business Owner" custom career, and here it is!!!!  YAY!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These are great, I hate when they own several businesses and are still listed as unemployed. Thank you!

Cool! Thanks.

thank you

What an amazing, brilliant idea! Thank you a million times over for this. I was so annoyed by the fact that I owned a business, made it very successful, and my Sims still wanted to get a job. WTF? This mod makes me so happy. Thank you, jphill! Thank you!

Brill. Wow, thanks so much--I've been wanting something like this for ages, I up my Sims' money so much with Motherlode that it really gets annoying when they want a job. And the self-employed option's also great, I was so annoyed when my flower shop owning sim was still listed as "unemployed". I owe you for this!

thanks a million, I have a sim who owns five top rated buisnesses and it's always bugged me that he's classed as unemployed!!!

Excellent idea again!

Awesome, EAGames really should've fixed this with an OFB patch--like that would happen, most of their hacks fix things I never had problems with, and the rest I'm left to deal with or find fixes for--what would we do without you guys!? Thanks very very very much!

thanks!!! this is great :worship:

This is a great idea. Thank you!

Thank you for your time and effort.  This is just what I needed.  Its folks like you that truly make this game enjoyable.  :worship:

Hi, just wanted to notify you that you've forgotten to remove the non-US English language strings for the job title and carreer name... to me your careers are both named "Sports" the job title's "Team Mascot".

Thank you so much. This was so needed for the game. I mean I have a few people that there career is their business and they still want a job. Thank you again.
hugs,
Denise

thanks i look forward to trying this in my game.  You folk are so talented x x

Thank you so much!!

This sounds absolutely brilliant. I just have one question: is there any way to stop the "Your Sim has a day off today" message from popping up? I know Squinge made a mod that stops party pop-ups from showing but I dunno if you could do it so it only effects this one career.
Even if you can't its still great!

Thanks so much.

This is perfect! I was just about to go through the hassle of creating one for myself but this saves me the time and efforts. Thanks again

This one is cool. Thank you.

My sim couple has 3 businesses and 6 kids. Thank you!!!!

Wouldn't it make sense if Maxis would name owners of business just that instead of unemployed? A mod that causes business ownership to fulfill job wants would be nice too...

thanks

just what i needed,thank's..rev.jim...

i need this, thanks a milllllion

xxxxx

Yay. A perfect, perfect career. Thanks.

I don't think I ever thanked you for these...THANK YOU!!!  Makes things flow better and make sense.

Very cool idea. I like my family sims and we all know they like kids... My game, glitchy as it is, loves to pop out twins on a regular basis...(no hacks for that). It gets pretty annoying to see job wants popping up all the time. Thanks bunches for this.

This one is cool. Thank you.

I was wondering if there was a "Happily Unemployed" mod that works for pets?  Does this exist at all?  My one Sim wants her dog to get a job, but those pet careers are broken.

No, I don't know of any career mods that will work for pets. You could try Google and use keywords such as pet careers Sims 2 to see if any are out there.

Thank you, great idea, wish I had thought of it.