2 Sims with Professions-might get crazy?

[sydney511]

Ok, I have a husband and a wife, the husband in the home designing profession, the wife in the stylist profession. I just have one question- they have nearly identical work days. Will it be hard to control all the clients and finish an assignment? I also have a toddler and child at home. Will it be hard to have the toddler learn skills?

[Metropolis Man]

Hey, sydney. I don't do a lot of raising children stuff in Sims 3 just because I have enough of it in real life. But, whenever I do go that route I've always had one parent stay at home. It's so much easier to get the kids their skills, etc. You can always fall back on the babysitter to help, but there's obviously still the skill building that would be missing. Can't help you with the first question since I haven't touched either of those careers yet.

[Saltypaws]

I have found if you want a family and to have two careers, I did one sim ghost buster, hours 5pm to 3am and one sim sculptor or inventor and then ghost buster can take care of the children during the day, but that is my preference. 

[AriaGirl77]

Yup, I think you picked a tough combo there.  Recently I did have a firefighter and a stylist.  It was do-able, but I had to switch back and forth between sims a lot and queue up what I wanted each of them to do and trust that they would actually do it while I wasn't looking.  Good thing neither of them had the absent minded trait!

The good news is that in those professions there is no penalty for simply not doing a job, or not doing it within a certain amount of time.  If you don't do the jobs, you won't advance, but you also won't get fired.  So taking a day off when you need to, in order to teach your toddler some skills for example, is completely possible.

[gr8hairday]

I was wondering how that would go. I have an architect and her husband is a gardner/nectar maker. He's self employed and so I set him to tend his garden as she is leaving to begin her first project of the day. About the time her first client is walking through, her husband is done gardening. When I am sending her on her second job, he's ready to start making nectar. It's a hectic play style (to me). I usually pause a lot and bounce back and forth between them, but because I am keeping him at home, it's been very managable. The husband is really easy to please, and he will keep himself busy if I don't set him to a task. He will at least work out. Lucky thing he's been prolific with the nectar making prior to purchasing Ambitions.
I would like to hear someone's breakdown of how they manage two with careers to juggle that way.
 

[Frey]

Well, I once had a firefighter and a designer with a toddler and a child. It was really crazy, especially because for some reason my computer hates the fire station. I had to switch a lot and that made my computer get stuck very often. But as for the game, what I did was hiring a babysitter during the day, and teaching the toddler skills once the mom (the designer) got home about 4.30 or 5 pm. It was really crazy and I actually ended up turning the mom into a sculptor, but it was very fun too, except for my evil computer. My sims' moods were not the best of moods, but it was only until the toddler grew up. Plus, I always use the 'grow up early' thing with my toddlers as soon as they learn all the skills.

[jestina]

I wish they would create standard career route alternatives for people who don't want to juggle that stuff...either because they don't like it or because are playing more than one sim.

All I'd suggest is that one sim stay at home, take up one of the self employed jobs like painting, sculpting, inventing, etc.

[LlamaMama]

I'm bumping into this problem with my first professional sim, a stylist. At home there is a teen's time to manage plus 3 other adults who would play computer games all day if I didn't keep control of them. Although their LTWs are done, I still have goals and responsibilities for them to meet. I think I may have to discipline myself to either be completely hands-off with one or more of them, or else let the stylist progress very slowly, not completing all the daily assignments.

[pallyndrome]

I am always multi-tasking with my sims. I often have an 8 sim family with me controlling all of them. I just pause a lot and flip between them. I haven't tried juggling the new professions in ambitions yet, but I intend to. I will at least be juggling ghosthunter, firefighter, doctor, inventor and maybe sculptor at once, the sims I need just need to grow up

[Saltypaws]

That sounds like me pallyndrome.  I love alot of sims, keeps it from getting boring and yes, pause is a wonderful thing.  When I was doing crazy eights, it did drive me crazy using one sim,  Wishmasters is pretty good so far, but I do like 4 or more sims in a household.

Usually when I have that many sims I have some at home doing various jobs.  I have not been brave enough since Ambitions came out, to play more than 4 sims with any of the new careers or professions, but like was stated in earlier posts, you can have a couple of sims do the original rabbithole jobs and then a couple of sculptors or inventors and maybe throw in a PI or Stylist in the mix.  I am such a glutton for punishment, but, they do manage to all stay in the green.

[Pam]

The "stay at home" professions in Ambitions aren't difficult to juggle, but the "out and about" professions are a different story.  I had a Private Investigator as part of a family of four and it was very difficult to manage him.  The same would be true of a Stylist and Interior Designer.  Those professions require a lot of hands on management, unlike the rabbit hole jobs and the home jobs.

[Frey]

Well, you can always make good use of certain traits to make it easier too. Bookworm will make kids and teens do their homework on their own, for instance... but I finally got tired of my interior designer and firefighter. Made the firefighter quit the job and gave him a lifetime crisis.