Careers you don't play? «123...Next Go

Simmerville

There's so many different careers in this game, plus we can have home based jobs that are not really a career. No matter what kid of job you make up or your sim, there will always be a way to earn some money. In my game I added a few custom jobs. I follow some of my Politicians to work at the Council House, I have sims working for the regional TV studio, I even have a Janitor who's job is to clean up mess near food stalls, tend plants on community lots, and to burn leaf piles.

BUT, I always had a feeling there must be tons of careers I never play, especially because most careers split around level 5. So, I made a list of available jobs and did a check on all my sims YA and up. I ended up with 13 careers/jobs not in use. Many of them are custom jobs, or jobs not used for obvious reasons, while some I actually am surprised that I never played.

Secret Agent>Villain - never played this. Hardly played the "Diamond Agent" path either, but at least a sim is currently working on that one.

Social Media>Public Relations
Social Media>Internet Personality
I guess I never reached beyond level 3 or 4 in this career. I feel that new Stylist career covers much of the same.

Astronaut>Smuggler - never tried this path.

Style Influencer>Trend Setter
Style Influencer>Stylist
Both are very new to me, I played just a bit with the first levels, but didn't quite figure things out yet.

Dancer - I want dancing to be a job, so I added it to my list but must admit that I didn't even assign it to a sim in order to test it. Isn't there a ballet bar with some pack (that I obviously don't have yet)? The Spa pack? Perhaps I can combine Dancing with something else - like Trend Setter?

Vet - I never fancied this career, but I'll try it sometime.

Gardener>Botanist - eek, I love RL gardening, so why didn't I sens a few sims on the path to becoming Botanists? Guess they all chose the flower decorating path instead...

Archeologist - Well, I don't have the Jungle pack, so I guess it was a bit optimistic putting this on my list, lol


When a new sim grows up and needs a job, I tend to give them Culinary or Business because it feels so common, I guess. From now on I'll make sure that all job offers have at least 1 sim...

How about you, do you try all careers/paths?

jooxis

I don't like unrealistic careers so no astronauts and super villains in my game.

Stormkeep

I have yet to do any of the active careers in Sims 4. I did not do them often in TS3 either. I should, I enjoyed the one time I did one in TS3, I just haven't yet in TS4.

Reallysoawkward23

I don’t like unrealistic careers either. I’ve played through every career just to do so, but my sims are rarely ever astronauts or spies. I usually have my sims work in the business, culinary, police, and doctor careers. So even though we already have a lot of careers, I’m drawn to more ordinary jobs and don’t feel there’s enough of those. There’s definitely a place for some of the more “out there” jobs for storytelling purposes, but I don’t prefer them and I would like them to add more regular joe careers.

alyssa123

probably criminal, secret agent and astronaut. also i haven't tried style influencer yet. the careers i use the most are business, culinary and tech guru.

simgraves

There are so many. All of the GTW active careers, criminal, critic, entertainer comedy branch, social media, politician & secret agent

Hermitgirl

Tech Guru, and Business.. I don't really like rabbithole careers in general but the ones where the daily tasks include things that drain their fun even more make me give up on them quickly. Not sure I've seen either of these careers to the top yet.
I also haven't taken a sim to the top in the the athletic career or mixology I think..

unmog

> @jooxis said:
> I don't like unrealistic careers so no astronauts and super villains in my game.

I guess I agree with this, but now Im wondering about astronaut... always wanted to be one when I was a kid.

Vivi_WillowTree

I've played through all of the careers, but not all of the branches. I'm not one for creating my own career so I haven't messed with that at all. I leave the hobbies for fun something to throw off a day. The retail, restaurant, and vet's office I won't do because it has left a bad taste in my mouth. As for the career tab option goes the ones I don't play are..
 Astronaut
 Business
 Criminal
 Secret Agent
 Writer
 Detective
 Doctor
 Scientist
Actor
 Gardening

GrumpyGlowfish

I haven't explored much of the Style Influencer career yet because it's still fairly new and the two sims I've chosen to try out the branches aren't that far up on the career ladder yet. Another one I've never played is the oracle branch of the Criminal career, I'm setting up Cassandra Goth as one, but she's only just become an adult and will take another while to get there. I owned a shop once, but quickly sold it again because it was no fun at all, and never owned a restaurant.

Careers I don't play a lot include Athlete, Critic, Veterinarian, and the Interstellar Smuggler branch of the Astronaut career. Not because I dislike them (I actually like the vet career a lot), I just don't have many sims that are suitable for them. Only rarely do I resort to woodworking to make money instead of painting, writing, or gardening.

Hermitgirl wrote: »

Tech Guru, and Business.. I don't really like rabbithole careers in general but the ones where the daily tasks include things that drain their fun even more make me give up on them quickly.

Just ignore the daily task. I never bother with it, at least not deliberately, yet my sims still get promoted as long as I send them to work in a good mood (i.e. emotion). All that matters is work performance and getting to the required skill levels, and maybe the daily task helps with the former, but as I said, it has never made a significant difference in my game.

Simmerville

Hm, it would be nice if the game could give us community stats, like the careers currently most/leased used. I'd love to see this for the traits as well, as I probably use a few too often, while others might be forgotten.

elanorbreton

I've kinda given them all a go, but since I play rotationally my sims are very slow to move up the careers and I've never got beyond level 4 in any of them.

Sigzy05

I never played the secret agent career. Not sure I ever will. It has no appeal to me.

calaprfy

I play the realistic careers too unless a sim inherits certain traits.

For example, not many people become astronauts, and the job is best suited to sims with both genius and active traits. So only sims that inherit both these traits can be astronauts. And you can see that the odds of any sim getting these two traits is not good...as in real life!

Then there's the fine line between comedy and mischief, which only goofballs will follow.

katrinasforest

jooxis wrote: »

I don't like unrealistic careers so no astronauts and super villains in my game.

I'm the complete opposite. I've got villains, secret agents, astronauts. The crazier, the better in my game.

I think the careers I've never really done anything with are gardeners and social media. I did have one Sim who was an avid gardener, but that was before Seasons came out. So maybe by the time gardener was a career, I was gardened out for a while. I would like to come back to it. Especially since I have a Sim in my comic who's an aspiring botanist. ^_^;;

PinkWorld

Business, Secret Agent and Athlete? Yeah I think those are the careers I play least. Not that I play the other careers much, but especially these. I keep thinking I'll have to use those careers, especially business. Maybe I'll eventually get around to it. I'll like to at least have tried out every career to the top.

loutredor

I have played all of the careers at least once for curiosity's sake, but there are some I simply never played again.
I too tend to favor "realistic" careers for a better immersion. I love the rewards of the secret agent career, and frequently cheat to unlock them and build secret labs or secret rooms; but the career itself I simply never use.
I never use the critic career either but that is mainly because it is so limited. Same thing for the journalist path of the writer career. I wish there was a journalist career like in sims 3 in which you could investigate, interview sims and THEN write articles, or specialise and be a food critic, an art critic or even a film critic or a literary critic, but you would actually have to go to the restaurant, watch a movie or read a book before writing your article, as should be expected. The current critic career is just empty and not fun in the least.
I don't use the painter or the writer careers because I think it makes more sense for my artists/writers to be paid exclusively through their sells/copyrights. It is so weird to see a writer/painter "go" to their job, like they are employed by someone somehow.
The careers I use the most are the business career and the tech guru career (only in the start up entrepreneur branch), because they are the ones that seem the most "normal". I also use the politician and the social media careers but I wish they were more complete and more realistic. The politician one is especially disappointing. After a lifetime of "collecting donations" there should SERIOUSLY be something else to do.
I don't use the active careers a lot either even though they are quite realistic, because sometimes they can be so boring, especially the medical one. I would probably use them more if they could only work as rabbit holes, but most of them require that you join your sims at work, even in the beginning when there is nothing to do but "talk to collegue" and "have a coffee", and it's just so boring! so I would rather avoid them.
I haven't tested the actor career or the custom ones yet but I can't wait, there seem to be a lot of potential there.
Overall I think there is a good selection of careers, even though we could use more realistic ones (in education for instance). But the main problem I have with the existing ones is how empty and repetitive they can be. It would be so much better if there were events (funding events, new product launches, leaving dos, speaks, conferences...), unexpected incidents, emergencies (especially in the medical career), I don't know, anything really.

annaliese39

Reallysoawkward23 wrote: »

I don’t like unrealistic careers either. I’ve played through every career just to do so, but my sims are rarely ever astronauts or spies. I usually have my sims work in the business, culinary, police, and doctor careers. So even though we already have a lot of careers, I’m drawn to more ordinary jobs and don’t feel there’s enough of those. There’s definitely a place for some of the more “out there” jobs for storytelling purposes, but I don’t prefer them and I would like them to add more regular joe careers.

This, so much. I really hope we get more 'ordinary' careers. I'm glad the new self-employed feature allows us more variety to do this, but it would still be nice to have more careers with a salary. For example, military, librarian, teacher etc. Even opening up the part-time jobs for YA/As might be nice, especially for my parent sims whilst the children are at school.

I also wish there was professional dancer and singer careers.

Busufu

I never played:

Astronaut
Criminal
Secret Agent

silver_songbird

I think I did astronaut once but I found it incredibly boring tbh. wasn't my thing at all.

I've had lots of different families as I've never been able to settle / stick with one. I lie, I got 8 generations in, my PC fried and I never got that far in. I think I'm still salty over it even though it was years back

I know I've never played with..
secret agent
criminal
critic
athlete
culinary

I haven't had the chance to yet try out the new seasons careers properly, or the get famous ones in full. nor the new style influencer career, so I need some more time to decide.

although for my sims my usual routes are self employed usually more around self employed ones I can earn money from. so painter, writer, musician. but I've had some sims in tech guru & social media too.

there have been some I have played with and found utterly boring.. those being astronaut, journalist, politician & business.

KiaraSims4Mods

I know for sure I have never played the Criminal career lol.

ListentoToppDogg

There are many I haven't played since I only just started playing recently, but I don't have plans to ever touch Secret Agent or Criminal. I literally will never understand why criminal is even an option for a job. I'm not necessarily 100% opposed to Astronaut, but based on my play style, I can't see myself ever gong for it.

x_Always_Heart_x

Secret Agent
Detective
Politician
Business
Astronaut
Actor
Critic (forgot this one exists)
Social Media
Style Influencer


...Looking at this list, seems like I need to try these out more.

@ListentoToppDogg @YankeesForever The criminal career is kinda fun to play with actually. Im playing with it rn, both career branches (hacker nd boss) and its a lil fun to take a spin and play with "bad sims" who live as career criminals.

Simpkin

I play them all. Plus CC careers too.

comicsforlife

I never play this Social Media>Public Relations
Social Media>Internet Personality

Simmerville

Simpkin wrote: »

I play them all. Plus CC careers too.

Any cc careers you would recommend? I'm not so concerned with the climbing or wages, more with how it can add to interests and personality etc.