I have a couple questions and I searched but didn't find anything on this.

1. If I give a person one of the career magazines to boost there career. Is it worth the 300 bucks? Do they get a BIG career boost?

2. The office space upgrades. Do they DO anything for your persons career, or is it just visual (decoration)?

3. If I use the career change option in the "upgrade" menu, do I get to pick the career or is it random? Do I get several limited options, or is it like the "adoption" process in the beginning of the game where you keep "rolling" till you find what you like?

4. Again, in the "upgrade" menu, if I use the "higher learning class," do I get to pick likes and dislikes, or do I just get assigned some random ones?

Thanks to anyone who can help with any of these!

1. That really depends on the position of the game.

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3. and 4.

I haven't noticed much of a difference in the careers advancing faster with upgrades. With the upgrades, they seem to work slower (more things to do) and the career "points" they get don't seem to increase commensurately. With no upgrades, they get through their cycles a lot faster, hence faster level increases.

I'm trying out one family where I'm not buying any work upgrades and I'll see how soon I can get a master.

Be sure to let us know how that works out!
I find many of the kitchen upgrades unnecessary, all they do is cluttering up the workspace (don't like clutter).

My guy and his wife are both on level 5...the woman a bit lower than he is due to having 5 kids! He's 46 and it looks like he's on track to be a Master.

Thanks, that all sucks.. Oh well.. I tried the magazine and I swear it didn't do ANYthing.. Sigh.. Well they moved along fairly quickly anyway.. I was just being impatient I guess.

I tried it this morning and it shot me up to level 2. Which is good because I have a single mother- a one income family.

Single Mom? How? Dad die, or did it allow you to Adopt without a daddy. And I can barely live on two incomes!! Which is partially my fault because I bought like 1000 dollors worth of Lotto tickets...and only won a bag of groceries. I could have my Kiddos Beds right now. (I have two used couched and an adults bed.) That also reminds me I need to go shopping!! ^.^

Hi Salted,

Yes it was by way of adoption. Three were adopted. I didn't want her to get old without continuing the line because I spent real money on that house, I would hate to lose everything. So I was just securing descendants while she was rejecting unsuitable suitors

I have actually decided that I'll make it a tradition of adopting the first child in each family. I always get nervous when they are childless and arguing

How cool! And what a neat tradition. And I think I might do that because I'm only on my first generation, so when I adopted the first person, ever I was less sentimental to her. But now that I gave a daughter I might give the house to when Mommy dies and I want her to marry the right guy...plus adopting would be so cool.

Maybe a bit down the line i'l adopt when I can afford it.

The only down side of doing it this way is that you're losing the interest on that $4000 that you've used to adopt a child. Plus, not having a spouse at the beginning reduces your income by 1/2.

You can adopt a child right up until the parent passes away, so even if your couple remains childless, you should have enough money to "buy" (sorry...that's how I think of it! a child before that happens.

I just married. I would have denied the request because he dislikes children, but he has the same job as my adoptee. So they argue over that stuff but they tried for kids once...with no luck. I only have 900plus dollars.

well, hey, don't complain! Right now I onLy have 542, because of those LOTTERY TICKETS!!!

Well, I just did an experiment and the room upgrades DO make a difference. The mom is working in the kitchen where there are 4 upgrades and dad is in the office with no upgrades. She's part way through level 3 even though she's had 2 kids. He's only half way through level 2, so the upgrades DO work!

Yes, they do, but when you buy them don't expect them to have a huge career boost. but, the more upgrades you have, the bigger boost.

Haha lottery tickets sucked me in too. I can't even go into that page anymore because I can't spend anymore on lotto tickets. I now have 200. I'm bankrupt again.

Yes, those lottery tickets are strange, they are what we despise most and also what we love most.

I don't mind spending 4k at the beginning of each generation. Spending money makes money in my view and I have all the career upgrades so it makes it up pretty quickly. With my current couple I changed their careers 3 and 4 times each until I got the money making careers I wanted. It set me back 8k, which was all my money, but now that they are both masters I have almost 30k for the next generation making it a 22k profit.

The adopted child is not a profit, but it keeps the parent company and halts depression until a suitable spouse comes along. Meaning more time to work and less time moping around depressed. It also gets me attached to the child when there's only one, or sometimes two, to focus on. I also like the idea of an integrated family, it's less boring

I've been buying the career items and leaving the house upgrades for later. My idea was to make them earn money faster and then upgrade my house. But the thing is soooooooo slow!!!! It takes ages (literally) for them to earn money. Now that I reached the most expensive career items on the list it's taking me about 2 generations to get an item. Boring.

I adopt children because it's easier to clean up the house and yard with more hands on deck. Kids are faster at getting wrappers to the trash, socks to the laundry, etc. More kids also means more cute things happening around the house.

I'm at a stage where I'm trying to get perfect career matches (congrats on yours, Salted8) and so I adopt a kid or two to make sure I have a new generation. In two of my families that's working out fine, they have plenty of coins. My third family has had worse luck. I think I may have to shelve the idea of a perfect match in that one and get a few high earners in there and concentrate on careers for a while.

Thanks

Hehe, I must admit that mostly I choose the ones that have lots of money in bank at the time, is that bad?

Hi I also have a question ..once my kids go to college & the parents die off do I get to keep the money I bought ..The coins for the next family or I have so spend it all before the parents die

Hi kinda23. I answered you here last night. If you ever have trouble finding one of your posts, click the "My Stuff" link near the top of the page and choose "My Posts" from the dropdown menu. It will generate a list of your posts. I hope this helps.