Saturday, November 20, 2010

Friendships and Careers are Hard to Juggle

When I switched back to Sullivan Manor as my active household, Peter was the only one home, playing his guitar, as usual. Everyone else was out at really weird places.

Erin was at a local park with Noah, still dressed in his Orchestra Leader outfit, and Peter's girlfriend Pauline. Townie Beau Andrews was there too. What were they doing? No idea.
Tegan, still in her Chairman of the Board power suit, had wandered out into the middle of freaking nowhere. Those little splashes are fish jumping. Maybe she was planning on doing a little fishing.
Youngbum was hanging out around the supermarket talking to someone named Abraham with waist-long hair.
Tara and her coworker - and local millionaire - Geoffrey Landgraab were talking outside the diner, but Tara was getting hungry so I sent them inside to eat.

Anyway, Tara, Tegan and Youngbum have both had promotions: Tara's a neurosurgeon, Tegan's a power broker (top of the business career path) and Youngbum is a band manager. Peter's been a lead guitarist for a while, but this is the first time I've gotten a picture of him in his work outfit.

Now that so many of them are so high up in their careers, they don't have to work as often. Several of them - Tegan and Peter included - only work three days a week, and Tegan only works three hours during those days! Still, she brings in a cool 317 Simoleons per hour. Yikes!

It's hard to remember to juggle the careers and the friendships. Sim friendships are like real friendships: if you don't contact or hang out with the person, your relationship deteriorates until you lose the friendship.

I've started working on their relationships with each other; they deteriorated more than I thought as they worked on their careers. Tegan's only friend in the house, besides Youngbum, is Joe. Youngbum is friends with Joe and Peter. Tara has a friend in Erin, but she and Joe are only distant friends. Noah is good friends with Erin but distant friends with Peter. Joe has the most friends of all of them. He and Peter are best friends.

They all seem to love the new house, and there's plenty of room for everyone. Yay!

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