Veterinary Nursing Apprenticeship

Base Game University Life

Originally released 11/03/2013

Update Log:
– 18th September, 2020 ~ Added Chinese translation

This Apprenticeship can promote into my Veterinary Career. University Life is required.

Now, these Apprenticeships are, essentially, part-time teen careers. Your teens can go and apply at the associated rabbit-hole building and land themselves a three-level apprenticeship. To change the designated rabbithole to suit your own requirements, I have a tutorial HERE for you to follow. They will earn money each day and will work from 4pm-7pm, Monday to Friday.

Once your teen is promoted to Level 3, they will receive a reward certificate in their Family Inventory to put up on the wall to show off their achievements. As an additional bonus, when your teen ages up to Young Adult, when they apply for the connecting career, they’ll start at a higher level!
Each Apprenticeship has its own custom uniform. There are, currently, no opportunities. It’s challenging enough getting the teens to complete homework and build up the required skills, without throwing extra opportunities into the equation!

How The Promoting Works

When your teenage Sim ages up while employed in an Apprenticeship, they will appear to stay in the apprenticeship. In order for them to get into the “Adult” career, your Sim needs to apply for the job via the Rabbithole, or on the newspaper or computer, as normal. They will appear to only be in level one of the “Adult” career when they join, but after a few moments, it will change to a different level.
If your Sim is at Level One in the apprenticeship, they will not gain any career advancement.
If your Sim is at Level Two in the apprenticeship, they will promote into Level 4 in the “Adult” career.
If your Sim is at Level Three in the apprenticeship, they will promote into Level 6 in the “Adult” career.

Please don’t ask me to change this! It’s the way to code works in Twallan’s Careers mod and I can’t change it.
The Apprenticeship is in English and supports Spanish, German, Russian, French, Dutch and Chinese translations.


The Apprenticeship is located at the Hospital and has a custom uniform for all three levels. It focuses on the Science, Logic and Charisma skills.

Uniform for all three levels.
Uniform for all three levels.

1. Animal Boarding Assistant ~ Intermediate: When animals have to remain in the surgery overnight, somebody has to be present to look after them throughout the night. Well, you’re on the 4-7 shift. Your job entails making sure the animals are well fed, watered and given company. It’s a quiet job and will give you good experience of life in the surgery.
§10/hour
Hours: 4.00pm ~ 7.00pm
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

2. Veterinary Assistant ~ Advanced: As an assistant, it’ll be your job to fetch prescribed medication and equipment for the vets and give out advice to pet owners on the health and wellbeing of their beloved pets. You’ll probably end up doing a bit of reception work too, answering the phones and booking consultation appointments and surgeries. Make sure your charisma skill is up to scratch.
§15/hour
Hours: 4.00pm ~ 7.00pm
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

3. Veterinary Nurse ~ Higher: As a Veterinary Nurse, you’ll be assisting in minor surgery on small animals, such as cats and dogs. From time to time, you may well be asked to perform the surgery, under the supervision of a qualified veterinary surgeon. It’s good experience for you and gives you a realistic idea of what to expect when you qualify. Congratulations on your dedication!
§20/hour
Hours: 4.00pm ~ 7.00pm
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

There are three custom tones; Research Veterinary Practises, which builds the Science and Logic skills; Talk to Customers, which builds the Charisma skill and Sit Exam, which boosts overall performance.

Translating 

I’m not fluent enough in any other languages to translate, so if you’re interested in translating this career into your language, then please open the LanguageStrings file in Notepad.
<KEY>Gameplay/Excel/Careers/CareerList:Example</KEY>
<STR>Translate This Text</STR>
Do that for the entire file, then email me your translation to: missyhissy0913@hotmail.co.uk and let me know which language you’re translating to. :)
The career works for me but if you have any issues, please don’t hesitate to let me know and I’ll do my best to sort it as quickly as possible.

Credits:
Twallan, for his excellent Careers Mod
Inge and Peter Jones for S3PE
Creon, for his tutorial on Career Creating
argos93, Angie, Victor, SecretX, Eline, Lessien Vardamir and vkey for translating!

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