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Day Three of Eight Sim Challenge
GOALS: PROMOTIONS, BETTER JOBS
CASH BALANCE: 1, 070
==================================================It’s now Day Three. With my goals for the previous day botched, I have no choice but to pick up where I last left off– to get everyone promoted and off to work on time.
Earlier in the morning, I almost met with disaster again! Justin, Torvald, Eleanor, Penny, and Emma had to get up at 3AM to meet the carpool for their jobs as typesetters, and they barely made it. But I made sure they made it on time!
EMMA: I am *so* not a morning person.
JUSTIN: Emma, you’re not a morning person or a day person or even a night person!
EMMA: Justin, please don’t make me throw this scalding hot cup of coffee at you.
JUSTIN: Well, someone’s cranky!
EMMA: You would be, too, if you had to deal with The Sawmill! They should patent Torvald’s snore as a car alarm; he’d be a gazillionaire!
8 AM
It’s now nearly 8AM. While our typesetters are at work, I just want to share this snapshot to mention a pointer about managing an 8 Sim house.
Here you can see Cassie, Gerald, and Michael eating breakfast without five other sims breathing down their necks. The reason why is that they’re working later shifts than the others. When you have a situation like this, you might think it’s annoying having to keep track of so many different shifts. But trust me– it’s a Godsend. Having one part of the house work the morning shift and the other the late morning shift makes life easier to manage than if everyone was working the 9-5 shift!
Take our house, for example. Because of the work schedule, only three Sims will be at home in the mornings. This leaves room for them to satisfy their needs without competing with their five other housemates.
Better yet, not only are these guys working a later morning shift than their 5 other roomies, they aren’t even going to work at the same time! Michael’s carpool is at 8, Gerald’s at 10 and Cassie’s at 11. With Michael gone at 8, this leaves Gerald and Cassie even more elbow room and time to satisfy their needs without having to compete for bathrooms!
It gets even better: when their five other roommates finally come home later today, Gerald, Cassie, and Michael will be at work. That means that with three of their roommates at work, Emma, Eleanor, Jenny, Justin, and Torvald will also have more room to take care of their needs!
So, if you ever wanted to know a secret to managing an 8 sim household– here is one of them: get different parts of the house to work different shifts so that you’ll only have to manage a few sims at a time throughout the day.
12:03 PM: JUSTIN, TORVALD, JENNY, EMMA, AND ELEANOR COME HOME FROM WORK
It’s noon, and our young, budding typesetters have arrived home from work. Unfortunately, no one got promoted. But each has brought in 120 Simoleans, bringing the cash balance up to 1650.
Although I’m somewhat disappointed that no one got promoted, it doesn’t matter anyway, because I’ve decided not to have all of these guys continue to work in the Journalism field.
EMMA: UGH! Thank God!
It didn’t fit their personalities. Besides, it doesn’t pay much and takes too much time and effort to get promoted in!
So I’m having the guys go job hunting. Today’s job offering is Mailroom Clerk in the Business Career Track. Not exactly the thing I was looking for my guys, but it’s better than Journalism! So I’m giving Emma, Eleanor, and Jenny the Mailroom Clerk jobs, but am deciding to have Justin and Torvald stay on the Journalism career track, just to keep things interesting.
Keep in mind that these still aren’t the career tracks I necessarily want all of my Sims to be on, but that these jobs are just for now.
6 PM: CASSIE AND GERALD COME HOME
The last of our Sims have come home. They didn’t get promotions, so no bonuses came in. However, because everyone worked today, the cash balance has jumped to 2, 030 Simoleans!
CASSIE: Gawwwddd… are my feet tired! And I can’t believe I have to dress in that stupid Team Mascot outfit! It’s so embarrassing!
GERALD: Awwww, c’mon– it can’t be that bad.
CASSIE: I have to do the Funky Chicken to “Who Let The Dogs Out!”– and in a beaver costume.
GERALD: Okay, that’s pretty bad. In fact, make sure you don’t talk to me when you see me Downtown tomorrow!
Speaking of tomorrow, let’s see what the next day has in store for our sims.
8 Sim Challenge – Day Four
Day Four of the Eight Sim Challenge
CASH BALANCE: 2, 030 Simoleans
GOAL: WORK ON PROMOTIONS, DIFFERENT JOBS
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It’s Day Four, and I am continuing my goal of trying to get the Sims promoted. Only Gerald and Michael have advanced beyond Level 1 in their career tracks, so today I’m going to try my darnedest to get the six other roomies so contented, that they’ll be earning promotions left and right.
CASSIE: Pretty hard in this dump! This couch has more lumps than the one in Michael’s head!
MICHAEL: I heard that!
BREAKFAST: TORVALD ACCIDENTALLY MISSES CARPOOL! 🙁
Unfortunately, Day Four has started off badly again! Torvald missed his 3AM carpool!
The last time he did this, I was a little lenient. But this morning I’ve decided to put him to good use by making him clean the house and do other chores. Whenever one of your Sims misses work, always use him to your advantage by getting him to do housework. It may suck that he isn’t pulling income in for the day, but at least when he scrubs toilets and sinks, he’ll help keep flies at bay!
TORVALD (cleaning toilet): AAAGGGHHH! EEE-YEWWWWW! Das shtink! YAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!
CASSIE (overhearing before leaving for carpool): Sounds like Michael’s *handiwork* again– tee hee!
12 PM JUSTIN PROMOTED!
As badly as Day Four started out, things have gotten better with the arrival of Justin with a promotion and a bonus. He’s become a game reviewer with 200 a day and brought home a bonus of 400!
JUSTIN (crowing): WOO-HOO!
It looks like all that resting I made the students do the night before is beginning to pay off!
In my last 8 Sim Challenge, I got the Sims jobs that needed little to no friends to advance in their careers. But in this challenge, some of the careers need friends, so this time around I’m going to focus more on developing friendships. Here you can see Justin meeting a fellow neighbor, Lara.
8 Sim Challenge – Day Four
3PM
Eleanor, Jenny, and Emma have arrived home from their brand new jobs as Mail Clerks. (Michael, too, is back home from work in his career track of Athlete). None of them got promoted today (*sniffle*), but at least they brought some much-needed money. Now the house has 2, 970 Simoleans.
EMMA: Yuck– I’ve got toner cartridge all over my hands from making copies all day at work.
ELEANOR: What are you complaining about? At least you don’t have paper cuts!
EMMA: *snort* Paper cuts? Big deal!
ELEANOR: I’m talking the real nasty ones… like, right under your fingernail!
EMMA: (*cringes*) Ew. Okay– you win!
6 PM: CASSIE PROMOTED!
It’s 6, and things are really beginning to look up. Cassie just got promoted in the career track of Pro Athlete. Her salary went up only slightly, but she brought in 340 Simoleans in bonuses! 🙂
CASSIE: WOO-HOO!
GERALD: Good job!
Too bad it got eaten up by bills, which came in today! 🙁
CASSIE: D’oh!
Cash balance: 3, 680
Bills: 364 🙁
Nearly 8 PM
This is just a snapshot of the living conditions and to show you how everything is going as the Challenge progresses. The house has suffered many broken sinks, but other than that, it’s seen no roaches or flies, thanks to the Virgoes! (In fact, you can see the girls cleaning up right now.)
About the only snag I’ve hit is with the Portapotty, which has caused many a Sim’s hygiene to plummet dramatically whenever they use it. However, because of it, no Sims have yet to wet themselves or struggle in competition for the bathrooms.
EMMA: *giggle!* *snort!*
CASSIE: What’s so funy?
EMMA: The Simmer made the whole bathroom situation sound like some struggle in prehistoric times. Imagine a movie– “Quest for Toilet!”
ELEANOR: You’re… very tired right now, aren’t you?
EMMA (eyes cast down in shame): Yes.
Because of the Portapotty and one shower, some of our guys are a little stinky, but better to have stinky Sims than Sims practically ready to burst their bladders.
EMMA: Yeah, easy for you to say! You don’t have to smell them!
MICHAEL: You haven’t exactly been a bouquet of roses yerself, Emma.
EMMA: At least I use deodorant!
GERALD: Too-shay!