Real talk - how do you actually play in Live Mode???

I'm not joking. I know everyone has their own ways of playing the Sims but I'm one of the people that builds and builds and builds, spends hours and days decorating builds to the minutest degree. I also can spend a lot of time in CAS making mostly recreations of people in my own life. Once I've made a suitable home and a person/people to move in, I hit play and...

It's mostly me just wheel spinning until I get bored and put the game away until the next time I feel like building. I see posts here of people having these extravagant storylines and doing hilarious things with their Sims but for me I feel like maybe I'm not imaginative enough for that??? I always end up getting my sim a sensible job and then spend literally all of the rest of their time when they're at home tending to their needs before they go to sleep and start over. It's like a depression simulator. What are you guys doing to make it fun/interesting????