Choosing the Right Job

Last Updated May 2002.

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Choosing the right career is one of the most important aspects of the game. There are ten career tracks in the original Sims, plus another ten in the Livin' Large & Unleashed expansion packs.

Each career track has ten positions and there is a 1 in 20 chance that you will be forced out of the top job once you get it. Choosing the wrong career may mean your working long hours for little pay or setting your self too much work to reach the top of your career.
To maintain financial security I recommend that you don't aim for the level ten job, instead stay at level nine.

Here are my picks for the best careers.
The Numbers refer to (in this order) Cooking, Mechanical, Charisma, Body, Logic, Creativity and Friends:

• Most Money for the Least Skills and Friends:
  Hacker- Level Eight- Software CEO
  Hours: 10am to 7pm (carpool arrives at 9am)
  Pay:1 100 Simoleans
  Skills: 0;4;4;0;7;7;6
  *There is a chance of receiving a 30 000 Simoleans bonus in this job, this would definitely boast your funds.
  
• Working Short Hours for reasonable pay:
  Science - Level Nine - Theorist
  Hours: 10am to 2pm (carpool arrives at 9am)
  Pay: 870 Simoleans:
  Skills: 1;7;4;0;9;7;8
  
• Good Pay in Good Hours:
  Business - Level Nine - CEO
  Hours: 9am to 4pm (carpool arrives at 8am)
  Pay: 950 Simoleans:
  Skills: 0;2;6;2;7;5;12

Picking the right job is really important, it determines how you live.

You know you've made it when you go to work in a limo