Someone said they were rolling in dough from Tech Guru and that I'd completely missed the mark on a few of my statements. I wonder if some changes came along that were not documented, in order to bring more balance to the game.
Thanks for throwing that in, I'll edit the Career page when I can and also look at programming in general!
What I did with Sims 3, was to make a pass through all the skills after some time had passed and try to improve them based on EP additions, etc. I will likely do the same in this case.