You might want to try redownloading and unzipping the game, it's missing code that should definitely be there. I can't imagine why it would be missing unless an rpy or py or rpyc file somehow got deleted. It is trying to call the first work event. It could also have happened if a career was not assigned somehow, did you skip past the career selection? It might not have stopped on that screen in the same way the other choices would stop.
Let me know if one of those things helps out!