I am having the same issue. I am playing on xbox one.
Scenario
I found a village, setup a defensive wall. Breeded the villagers, took the babies over 200 blocks away to my ocean town I am building. Put them in a house Let them grow up place a workstation down. They will assume that job. Trade with them to lock their profession. Then let them lose in my new ocean town.
This orginally worked perfectly in 1.11 when it first came out. Now that I am 1.11.4 it is broke. When The baby grows up and I place the workstation down they never take the job. They just stay jobless. I have even seen 3 different times where they are wearing the jobless cloths but the farmer hat. Even though I have a blast furance down. I have done this in isolation and in my town same results. Either they stay jobless or they bug out and have the jobless cloths but a farmer hat. Even though there is no composter around. I hope Mojang can fix this issue soon. Looks like I will have to move onto a different build until they get this fixed. If you need any more information please let me know.
Jason Goudy
I am having the same issue. I am playing on xbox one.
Scenario
I found a village, setup a defensive wall. Breeded the villagers, took the babies over 200 blocks away to my ocean town I am building. Put them in a house Let them grow up place a workstation down. They will assume that job. Trade with them to lock their profession. Then let them lose in my new ocean town.
This orginally worked perfectly in 1.11 when it first came out. Now that I am 1.11.4 it is broke. When The baby grows up and I place the workstation down they never take the job. They just stay jobless. I have even seen 3 different times where they are wearing the jobless cloths but the farmer hat. Even though I have a blast furance down. I have done this in isolation and in my town same results. Either they stay jobless or they bug out and have the jobless cloths but a farmer hat. Even though there is no composter around. I hope Mojang can fix this issue soon. Looks like I will have to move onto a different build until they get this fixed. If you need any more information please let me know.