Well,
the good thing about having had to go to bed early on Day 2 is
that everybody is ready to get UP early on Day 3. I get the first two
sims up at 4:30 and set them to making breakfast; since a group meal
only feeds six, and we have eight in the family, that means we need TWO
group meals, for a total of $40. [I don't know what they're eating, but
I could make omelets or pasta for eight for a lot less than that, out
here in the real world! :-) ] While those two sims cook, I get three
other sims up and have them attend to hygiene. With three bathrooms and
an early rising, everybody is clean and fed and has had some TV time by
the time the carpool arrives.
Unfortunately, all this hygiene has made one of the showers break. Since Carmen is ready early, I have her call the repairman, and while she's at it, I have her call the maid, too. I'm pretty sure stuff breaks more often if it gets dirty, and although my sims clean the toilet after every single use, they aren't able to clean the shower very effectively. So we'll hire someone who's a lot better at cleaning than we are, and hope that keeps things from breaking again soon. (There's a HIDDEN Cleaning skill in The Sims 1, and maids have a lot more of it than my poor sims.)
The shower's breaking only seems to have ruined MY mood, though; the
sims all go off to work in good moods, and the Politics folks all have
the two Charisma points they need for their second promotion.
They come home with lots of promotions, but Diego also gets a negative chance card in the Tailor position. He stuck a customer with a pin and has to pay $1000 to make the customer happy again. Whew! That's pretty steep, especially for a Level 2 job. [Will somebody pay ME $1000 if I let them stick me with a pin? Sheesh.] Still, the others get enough promotions that we now have enough money to add a fourth bathroom and a second bedroom. They're still using the main room as both the kitchen and living room, so space is still a bit tight, but not having people sleep in the same room as the TV helps a lot.
We're also able to upgrade the chairs that are around our kitchen table, so we go from the Comfort 3 redwood chairs (Deck Chair by Survivall) to the Comfort 5 metal chairs (the M chair). This will make it a lot easier to get those needs up while they're having breakfast in the morning.
Meanwhile, the maid is still here. She'll eventually charge us $50, but I think it's worth it. It would take my sims a long time to clean the place, and they actually make more money if they spend their time skilling up for the next promotion than they do if they spend their time cleaning. And if you don't clean, the plumbing breaks more, plus you get roaches and flies, and I hate the sound the flies make.
Although Politics has a good starting salary, it requires a LOT of
friends, and I want to try transitioning my people out of that career.
I buy a computer temporarily and have Henry look for jobs. I'm looking
for careers that need three or fewer friends to reach level 5 and
twelve or fewer friends to reach the top. I also want the career to pay
$400 or more at level 5.
There are eight careers that meet my criteria, but I'm only open to seven of them, since I'm not willing to have my people be Criminals. Fashion is one of those careers, but we already have three people in that, so I'm hoping to find one of the other five: Hacker, Law Enforcement, Medicine, Military, Science, or Xtreme. Military and Law Enforcement both have relatively low pay at the top, but it'll be a LONG time before we get to the top, so I'm still open to those. But Hacker, Medicine, or Science would be especially fabulous.
Henry sits at the computer and starts typing. I tell him no, he doesn't want a job in the Slacker career, and no, he doesn't want one in Music. But the third career is Medicine, and I tell him to take that job. After he's done with the computer, I tell Anna to go take the Medicine career, too, then I sell the computer back to the store.
Everybody builds skills for the evening, and we need a second friend for our next promotion. Donna walks by shortly after 4 p.m., so I look up her interests and find that she has three interests in common with both Ginger and Diego. Ginger is already maintaining one friend, so I send Diego out to chat up Donna. Donna and Diego get along great, and before the evening is over, we have our second friend. Diego is pretty tired, from standing up talking, complimenting, tickling, and hugging for the past three hours, so I send him to watch TV and rest his feet.
Everybody looks to be in reasonable shape, so I send them all to bed -- all in BEDROOMS, even -- at 10 p.m. Evelyn needs the toilet before bedtime, and while she's washing her hands afterwards, the sink breaks. That's the second plumbing disaster in one day! I have Evelyn call the repairman before she heads to bed, and we get ANOTHER visit from a humming Mr. Fix-It while my sims sleep.
Onward to Day 4
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Unfortunately, all this hygiene has made one of the showers break. Since Carmen is ready early, I have her call the repairman, and while she's at it, I have her call the maid, too. I'm pretty sure stuff breaks more often if it gets dirty, and although my sims clean the toilet after every single use, they aren't able to clean the shower very effectively. So we'll hire someone who's a lot better at cleaning than we are, and hope that keeps things from breaking again soon. (There's a HIDDEN Cleaning skill in The Sims 1, and maids have a lot more of it than my poor sims.)
They come home with lots of promotions, but Diego also gets a negative chance card in the Tailor position. He stuck a customer with a pin and has to pay $1000 to make the customer happy again. Whew! That's pretty steep, especially for a Level 2 job. [Will somebody pay ME $1000 if I let them stick me with a pin? Sheesh.] Still, the others get enough promotions that we now have enough money to add a fourth bathroom and a second bedroom. They're still using the main room as both the kitchen and living room, so space is still a bit tight, but not having people sleep in the same room as the TV helps a lot.
We're also able to upgrade the chairs that are around our kitchen table, so we go from the Comfort 3 redwood chairs (Deck Chair by Survivall) to the Comfort 5 metal chairs (the M chair). This will make it a lot easier to get those needs up while they're having breakfast in the morning.
Meanwhile, the maid is still here. She'll eventually charge us $50, but I think it's worth it. It would take my sims a long time to clean the place, and they actually make more money if they spend their time skilling up for the next promotion than they do if they spend their time cleaning. And if you don't clean, the plumbing breaks more, plus you get roaches and flies, and I hate the sound the flies make.
There are eight careers that meet my criteria, but I'm only open to seven of them, since I'm not willing to have my people be Criminals. Fashion is one of those careers, but we already have three people in that, so I'm hoping to find one of the other five: Hacker, Law Enforcement, Medicine, Military, Science, or Xtreme. Military and Law Enforcement both have relatively low pay at the top, but it'll be a LONG time before we get to the top, so I'm still open to those. But Hacker, Medicine, or Science would be especially fabulous.
Henry sits at the computer and starts typing. I tell him no, he doesn't want a job in the Slacker career, and no, he doesn't want one in Music. But the third career is Medicine, and I tell him to take that job. After he's done with the computer, I tell Anna to go take the Medicine career, too, then I sell the computer back to the store.
Everybody builds skills for the evening, and we need a second friend for our next promotion. Donna walks by shortly after 4 p.m., so I look up her interests and find that she has three interests in common with both Ginger and Diego. Ginger is already maintaining one friend, so I send Diego out to chat up Donna. Donna and Diego get along great, and before the evening is over, we have our second friend. Diego is pretty tired, from standing up talking, complimenting, tickling, and hugging for the past three hours, so I send him to watch TV and rest his feet.
Everybody looks to be in reasonable shape, so I send them all to bed -- all in BEDROOMS, even -- at 10 p.m. Evelyn needs the toilet before bedtime, and while she's washing her hands afterwards, the sink breaks. That's the second plumbing disaster in one day! I have Evelyn call the repairman before she heads to bed, and we get ANOTHER visit from a humming Mr. Fix-It while my sims sleep.
Onward to Day 4
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