Unfortunately, that's a bug in the game that we're working on, but there is a workaround. You can find out more about it in this discussion.

Thanks for the quick response. I exited the game but without pausing it. I came back after a couple of hours at church and still no progress so I tried something else. I had bought the shredder but not the trash can, so I added the trash can. Now my little gal is making career progress!! Yay! So my question is, do I buy my little guy the spice rack to add to his coffee maker, or do I just leave well enough alone since his work cycles are doing just fine with only the coffee maker? Thank you for another great, CLEAN game that I can play and so can my 8-year-old. We have all 5 VV and now both VF and we love them all.

I think this is probably self-explanatory:

Hi Silvermoon

I too have run into this problem in a couple of generations. In my experience I found 1 career upgrade stops the career progress for that room. Purchasing a second career upgrade for any other room starts their progress again. I have stopped buying the career upgrades for a while. I am in my fifth generation and they are getting expensive and I am saving to fix rooms. When I am ready for more career upgrades I am planning to make sure I have enough money to buy two at a time.

Good luck and have fun

Mayfly, I noticed this too. I think I'll go with your suggestion and buy 2 at a time!

Honestly, I'd rather just pay the money to bump the career up instead of buying the upgrades right now. I get them all eventually, but for right now, it's cheaper to upgrade the peep instead of the office!

I love the career upgrades, because they make their work spaces look much more used and lived in. And they provide benefit to all subsequent generations, not just to the upgraded person.

I'd call that a grammatical error and not a BUG! Happens to us all, even in the most sophisticated games.

It's a thing they might want to fix in future updates, which is why I posted it in the same thread as the other things they might want to fix.

There's no need to yell at me about pointing out a typo; I'm trying to be helpful here.

It's most certainly not a grammatical error. It's an error, plain and simple. It is certainly helpful to LDW for this sort of error to be pointed out. It's hardly game-breaking, but is the sort of thing that can easily slip through even the most rigorous testing.

OK it's an oversight, enough said!