Since there’s no active law enforcement in the game (unless you have Get to Work installed), I guess it pays to commit crimes, and no one will stop your Sims from doing so!Ĭareer Levels/Branches: The base career has five levels before your Sim can branch to either the Boss Career (i.e. This career has been in the game since its release, and allows your Sim to have a professional career as a Criminal. Take your Sim into the “seedy” side of life with the Criminal Career. 'careers.promote actor' will level up the actor career, or 'careers.promote painter' will level up the painter career). Then type in 'careers.promote' and the name of the career you're looking to promote (i.e. To open the cheat console, first type “Ctrl + Shift + C” on PC or “Command + Shift + C” on Mac.

Part-Time Jobs (teen only) Part-time jobs are only for teens in the game, and allow them to work after school for some additional money and skills.ĭon't feel like actually working your way up in a career? You can open the cheat console and use a cheat to go up levels in careers, without your Sim actually being promoted!.

While you’re not really “working” a job, you can own and manage the business and make money that way.

Business Owner Some of the “careers” in the game are more linked to owning a business, like the restaurant, retail and veterinary options.

These careers give your Sims the option to either go to work each day in the traditional “rabbit hole” way, or you can choose for them to work from home, and complete a small number of tasks from home to affect their work performance, rather than having to go to the office.

Semi-Active Careers These careers are introduced with The Sims 4: City Living expansion pack.

These careers allow you to actually follow your Sims to work and perform interactions throughout the work day with them.

Active Careers Active careers were brought into the game with The Sims 4: Get To Work expansion pack.

which will affect their work performance during the day.

There are occasionally pop-ups while their away for you to choose how they’ll react to situations at work, and you can also pick from a list of pre-defined actions (away actions) for them to do while at work, like “work hard”, “make friends”, “leave early”, etc.

Rabbit hole/Standard Careers The majority of the careers in the game are rabbit hole careers, meaning your Sims disappear off their home lot during work hours and you don’t follow them to work.

Before I go over all the careers in the game, first we need to have a look at the different types of careers in The Sims 4:

Sims 4 teen careers