Game guide:Deciding the best career

Sometimes you'll struggle to find out what career your sim suits. What career will suit my sim's personality? Will it be compatible with my sim's lifestyle? Will it bring them in the long run?

This tutorial is only for The Sims 3 If you want to add info about The Sims or The Sims 2 you are free to do so.

=Basics=

There are many basics to rely on. Wishes, traits and skills. Sometimes you are forced to do a certain work due to dependents or chores for example cleaning the house or repairing.

Wishes
Your wishes are a good guideline to start. If you move a household in, usually the first wish you get is to get employed in a certain career path based on traits, lifetime wish or an event. For example you may get a wish to work in the criminal career track if the sim does a mean interaction. Sometimes when a sim gain a skill point in a skill you may get a wish to follow in a career track that includes that skill to advance. For example if a sim gain a point in athletic you may get a wish to work in professional sports.

Skills
Skills are very useful in deciding what career is the best for your sim and if it will bring you in the long run. Also if you'll be able to master the career. In The Sims 3 you don't really need skills to get promoted, but it will put your sim under pressure and has to work harder. So the logical way is to work on your skills so your sim has a better chance to advance or in other words being promoted.

The only career that doesn't use a skill is business.

Others
There are more than just skills and traits.

Vampires
Vampires should take "night-jobs", like the culinary or get self employment. The benefit of being a vampire is faster skill building. Take this into account.

Toddlers & Babies
Sometimes babysitters are not trustable. Mostly they don't teach skills like, walking & talking. So your sim has to stay at home to take care of the baby/toddler. But if your sim has to work, a part-time job, being self-employed or working in the military (The career with the least workdays).

Budget
If your sim is on 'n tight budget, and you can't afford skill objects. You can be in the Culinary or Business career. You have to make food for yourself, right? So your sim, will gain the cooking skill when you make a meal. And in the business career you need no skills.

Chores
If your sim's home is always full of dishes and rubbish. Or if the same stove always breaks and you can't replace it and you have repair it often.. You have to get money but you are constantly swamped with chores. Well you have to do the same as you would if you have toddlers. (Look above)

=Notes=


 * The Military is a good full-time job because it has the fewest workdays and the pay is good. One problem is you have to build two skills


 * The Culinary is tough because shifts begin 3:00pm to 9:00pm in the evening and your sim would have to be at work for when others will do skill building, tend to their needs.