Best/worst professions and the hardest/easiest..

[purexevil666]

Hello :)..
I heaven't tried all professions in TS3 even though i have all EPs installed i am only on the singer profession from SHT EP and i want your opinions on what are the best professions and what are the worst ones? and what's the hardest to do between all...? Let's talk about professions! :D

[PunkyBreester]

I've only done firefighting and investigator. The firefighting is ridiculous, because you have an emergency EVERY single day and really have to focus on that sim to keep their job. The investigator was the opposite - I was focused on her husband the whole time, so she went out and did maybe 2-3 objectives for her entire career (YA-elder) but still got a weekly stipend and never any penalties for sitting around doing nothing :|

[crocobaura]

The firefighting is ridiculous, because you have an emergency EVERY single day and really have to focus on that sim to keep their job.

I could understand having emergencies every day, what I didn't understand was having emergencies at the same house every day. :faceslap:
As for the easiest profession, I really like the part time job at the bookstore, and I found the showtime singing career quite entertaining. Have tried to make a thief specialised in certain merchandise using the kleptomaniac trait but had no luck.

[Orilon]

The only Profession I've done for any length of time was the Ghost Hunter Profession. I tried the Firefighter a couple of Sim days, then realized that having two Sims in Professions was not going to work.

The Ghost Hunter Profession is pretty easy except for glitches that occur sometimes. (Not getting full credit for completed jobs, ghost not spawning during the Ghostly Presence jobs)

[purexevil666]

I've only done firefighting and investigator. The firefighting is ridiculous, because you have an emergency EVERY single day and really have to focus on that sim to keep their job. The investigator was the opposite - I was focused on her husband the whole time, so she went out and did maybe 2-3 objectives for her entire career (YA-elder) but still got a weekly stipend and never any penalties for sitting around doing nothing :|
for Firefighters I guess that's one of the flaws in the sims 3 but in the end it's a game :P but what the investigators actually do O.o

The only Profession I've done for any length of time was the Ghost Hunter Profession.
I've been interested in the ghost hunting profession :D and i want to do it

[BartholomewMaximillion]

Worst professions will have to be stylist and then architect. It's fun at first, but it's not a good long-time career. Eventually you'll be forced to makeover the same sims and houses everyday which tends to get boring if you've already remodeled them to 'perfection' the first thousand times.

[KKG3]

Firefighter is only good if your playing one sim, otherwise its chaos and Stylist is the same as well; only for one sim. Investigator is fine, and easy because you don't have set work hours. I've also played the Showtime proffesions and found them quite easy, I can play with multiple sims at a time.

My rating from worst to best:
-Firefighter
-Architect
-Stylist
-Ghost buster
-Singer
-Acrobat
-Magician
-Investigator
-Self-Employed Professions

I love having my sims as a self employed painter.

[IzzyBess]

I've tried all ambitions professions and....

Firefighter - really really worst of them all, or even of all jobs in game. It might be playable if you are playing with only one sim.
Architect - after a while it gets boring, especially when you have to makover home where's not much space and you have to add 2 sofas, 2 bookshelfs and much more things.
Stylist - I've enjoyed that one for a while but it gets boring.
Ghostbuster - I really like that one, especially because of the music in haunted house :D
Investigator - a bit boring for me.

Self employed are fun, collector and writer FTW.

[Belzader]

I've been interested in the ghost hunting profession :D and i want to do it

I've tried that it was quite fun, i sometimes "cheated" though :rofl: and created jobs manually by using "create job here" (i think it said) with having testingcheats on.

[zigersimmer]

I found inventor to be a good choice. I send him out scavenging the junkyards during the day while hubby is at his rabbithole job and the kids are in school. Then he can do his inventigating at home in between doing other stuffs.


I've been interested in the ghost hunting profession :D and i want to do it

Who ya gonna call?

[goteampink]

I LOVE the self-employed careers. Wish it was that easy in real life.

The other professions can be fun but they get really repetitive and are super hard to maintain if you are playing other sims in the same house.

I really like the ghost hunting profession, so random and unrealistic. :D

[lionessgirl]

I tried the ghost-hunter and then felt so guilty about the ghosts the first time I went to an emergency, so I couldn't continue. Stylist and architect were fun to play, but it was a pain having to look up each person's traits, and there seemed to be no way to know if a sim would like their makeover. Fire-fighting was okay, but got boring and predictable, and I could never fulfill the LTW of save 30 lives, because my sim would never have a job where lives could be saved. Self-employed is fine, so long as you enjoy your sim just grinding one skill while you sell what's produced. I didn't buy showtime because it seemed to me like LN part two, so I voted with the only thing EA understands: money.

[sabrieljo]

I love the magician career have had 3 of my sims follow this one, I agree with the firefighter one it's exhausting trying to keep up with the fires and I never seemed to rescue anyone.

[Periandre]

The professions are generally a little too much hands on for me. But I must say that I loved the Ghostbuster career. Sim actions are always soooo inappropriate (even when they don't have the trait). So it was a lot of fun watching my ghostbuster, in the midst of the household crazy-seen-a-ghost dance, eating the family's dinner, sitting down to watch tv, taking a shower, flirting with the lady of the house.

[lewisb40]

I absolutely love the self-employed professions, usually using gardening, writer and painting. If you use Twallan's Careers Mod, then hacking is easiest and very profitable after a while. I think Ambitions was best because of the self-employed careers.

I have only tried the singing career so far with SHT and I do like it, but simport is a bear to work with. Sometimes it works, most times it don't. It is super easy to get rich with those careers though, not much challenge.

[Anonymous Miss]

I love the self employed careers; I seriously reinstalled Ambitions for them (And Twinbrook, too, I suppose). I really like having a firefighter, too. He has a family life, as well, too. Private Investigator is iffy, at best. I love some of the quirky animations, but it's incredibly repetitive. Not as repetitive as architect or stylist, though. Those get boring after a Sim week.

Gotta love those ghostbusters, though!

[Zokugai]

If you hate spending all your time on one sim's career, STAY. AWAY. FROM. ARCHITECT.

Oh god do I hate architect.

[fraavio]

Repost because I'm stupid.

Being an architecture student myself and being almost done with it, I think that the "architecture" profession is extremely realistic, lol. Seriously, even as a student, I have craploads of stuff to do, and from what I see at the office I'm an intern at, it gets even worse when you actually start working. Social life is an urban legend for achitects, lol. Though I don't think that what you do in Ambitions is proper architecture(my interior design friends will kill me if they see this), I really enjoyed being able to do make-overs at the NPCs' places and stuff lik that. I could somewhat relate to the game on a different level.
Anywho, that being said, from most favorite to least favorite profession:
-Architect
-PI
-Self-employed(specially inventing stuff)
-Ghost Hunter
-Stylist
-Firefighter
As for careers, I really like Journalism, Business, Cooking and Thieving. I couldn't care less for the rest, lol.

[rian90]

Fraavio, do you find the profession really mimics the architecture profession? I see it more as an interior decorator since there is little building or designing of buildings involved. Just curious. Maybe the name 'architect' has changed over the years or maybe it is more broad than I thought!

[Zokugai]

Yeah, but it's broken. For one thing, a hundred positive reviews for the LTW? Really? That isn't even possible to do without cheating your sim's age. For another, without mods like Awesomemod to fix it, it doesn't properly take the quality of the items you use into consideration. You can put the best furniture possible into the room and the client will be like "Dude, why'd you use all this crappy stuff, where's the good stuff?"

And to make a sim room decent I normally spend like two hours on it, so taking a career that's all about making sim rooms would be masochistic.

And yes, I don't particularly think EA knows the difference between architecture and interior design.

[Misanthrope]

I hated the ghost hunter profession. Playing hide and seek with an invisible ghost is not as fun as it sounds. It was rather frustrating.

[MasterDarkNinja]

I've only played ghost hunter and investigator professions.

Investigator was fine, though didn't bring in much cash.

Ghost Hunter on the other hand was horrible. I had to find 3 or 4 ghosts in each house I visited, but the ghosts were all invisible! The only way I could find them is if my sim automatically walked to one and grabbed it. That would work at first, but then my sim would NEVER automatically find the last ghost, no matter where in the house I took them. Nor could I find it by clicking on everything. Then I finally had like 8 ghosts in my inventory and went to sell the ghosts at the science facility, and could only sell 1 ghost at a time, each trip inside! That was when I was like "ok, screw this, time to change careers".

From what my younger brother said I think some of those bugs have been fixed (like only selling 1 ghost at a time), but I still wouldn't recommend the career.

[purexevil666]

Now i changed my mind about the Ghost hunter profession :lol:

[minimogut]

I like the singing, acrobat, magician and ghost hunter the best. I don't like the firefighter job because it's so high maintenance, and the baby sitter job is the same, so I rarely use those. I'm kind of neutral about the rest, but I haven't tried the doctor profession yet.

[TheTripWasInfragreen]

Stylist, because I need an easy way to makeover ugly townies.

[TJman94]

When I saw that most people on this thread thought that Firefighting was their least favorite profession, my heart broke a little :( . I honestly think that it is pretty fun, but does have some minor flaws, like the areas that the fires are at are a bit obscure. I think that they should be in kitchens and rooms with fireplaces to seem more realistic, not the backyard. I also had this one problem where all of my co-workers were celebrities, and I did NOT want my firefighting Sim to be a celebrity.

Stylist is a guilty pleasure of mine because I made Don Lothario a Stylist and he makes all the female Sims look sleazy and all of the male Sims look like Casanovas. (Don't think I'm a pervert, I just like to set personalities for all of my Sims and anyone who knows Don Lothario knows why.)

The professions in Showtime are honestly my favorite. It truly seems like a rise from poverty to fame because at first it doesn't pay well at all, but give it a little more time and dedication and they become the best careers in the entire game.