Opportunity/Science

This is the list of Science career opportunities.

Book

Extra Appendages are Fun
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 1	Once per Sim Received at work	+15 Job performance +20 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "Living with Mutation" and go to work.
The role of the test subject is one of great peril and little profit. It's of the utmost importance that you learn your craft as a Test Subject so that you can progress forward! Read "Living with Mutation" and you'll grow closer to your boss. Your job performance will also increase.

Hazardous Gizmos
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 2	Once per Sim Received at work	+15 Job performance +20 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "Dangerous Device Disposal" and go to work.
Strange, wondrous, and oftentimes hazardous gadgets are lying around the office, and you need to know how to get rid of them! Your boss thinks you should read "Dangerous Device Disposal." It'll make your boss happy with you, plus your job performance will improve.

Practical Like a Fox
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 3	Once per Sim Received at work	+20 Job performance +25 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "Practical Science: From Boast to Beaker" and go to work.
Lab Techs are given access to a large variety of ordinary, practical tools that have both practical and ridiculous uses – it's time to learn them! Read "Practical Science: From Boast to Beaker" at your boss' request, and it'll help your employee to boss relationship and improve your job performance.

Ka-Boom and More
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 4	Once per Sim Received at work	+20 Job performance +25 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "Nitrates: They're Not Just for Exploding" and go to work.
Nitrates are an important asset to any fertilizer; information you'll find out by reading "Nitrates: They're Not Just for Exploding." You'll earn points with your boss for reading this on your own time, plus your job performance will surely increase.

Strange Indeed
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 5	Once per Sim Received at work	+20 Job performance +25 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "Strange Correlations of Little Shops and Venues" and go to work.
You must be on your toes when working with carnivorous plants. Sims just like you are tasty! Your boss thinks it's best for your safety and career if you read "Strange Correlations of Little Shops and Venues." You certainly won't make friends with the Sim-eating plants, but it just might improve your relationship with your boss.

A Pig Too Far
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 6	Once per Sim Received at work	+25 Job performance +25 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "When Pigs Fly: Going Too Far" and go to work.
Genes are a tricky thing. Tweak the red one on the left and you may grant a species the ability to endure freezing temperatures. But twist the blue one above it, and suddenly you've given a pig the ability to fly! Reading "When Pigs Fly: Going Too Far" will be instrumental in earning your next promotion.

What Not to Catch
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 7	Once per Sim Received at work	+25 Job performance +25 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "Goldfish, Piranha, and Other Friendly Creatures" and go to work.
Some fish are best left in the water, not just because they can be mean or overly clingy, but because it is "best" if other Sims and fish experience these creatures first hand. Your boss thinks you'll really benefit from reading "Goldfish, Piranha, and Other Friendly Creatures." Doing so is sure to improve your job performance and relationship with your boss.

Finger Pointing and You
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 8	Once per Sim Received at work	+30 Job performance +20 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "Advanced Deniability Procedures" and go to work.
Everything you do is tip top secret, so it's crucial you know how to deny anything. Not even your boss needs to know, which is why your superiors have asked you to read "Advanced Deniability Procedures." The less your boss knows, the better your relationship will be. It will definitely improve your job performance as well.

Do the Robot
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 9	Once per Sim Received at work	+30 Job performance +20 Relationship with boss	N/A
Read "The Evolution of the Robo-Llama" and go to work.
There have been several excellent test cases that show the benefits (and risks) of mixing biological organisms with really cool robotic components. Your boss recommends the excellent test case, "The Evolution of the Robo-Llama." It'll surely improve your job performance, and you and your boss' relationship might also improve as well.

Delivery

Funding the Lab
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 2-4 City hall rabbit hole	Repeatable Received at work	+20 Job performance	N/A
Deliver report to the city hall.
The Science Facility's budget is about to run dry and the suits at City Hall are threatening to withold the impending funds, pending our quarterly update. Take this report to City Hall quickly to appease their inquiring minds. Your efforts will not be in vain, because your job performance will improve when this situation blows over like an untended beaker.

Visiting rabbit hole

Of Fish, Robots, and Robot Things
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 4-8 City hall rabbit hole	Repeatable Received at work	+§5 Raise	3 days
"Give Presentation" at the city hall between 3 PM and 6 PM on non-workdays and go to work.
The council members at City Hall are constantly reading scientific journals about your wildlife experiments, advancements in agriculture, and robotics gone awry – and now they expect to hear about it first hand! Get to City Hall soon to give a presentation about the experiments of the facility, and you'll be given a raise.

Fix It!
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 4-10 Handiness level 3-10	Repeatable Received at work	§1,000 +20 Relationship with coworkers	5 days
"Repair Thingamajig" at workplace between 10 PM and 3 AM and go to work.
Your partner from the Science Facility recently broke the all-important what's-it being touted by the lab as the thingamajig of the next decade (or so). You're known as a whiz with the wrench, so your partner hopes you can salvage the gizmo before the boss finds out. Go to the Science Facility to fix the device, and you'll improve your relationship with your co-workers and earn a cash bonus.

A Meeting of Minds
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 6-10 Office building rabbit hole	Repeatable Received at work	+30 Job performance +25 Relationship with boss +30 Relationship with coworkers	5 days
"Attend Symposium" at the office building between 3 PM and 8 PM and go to work.
You've been asked to attend a Symposium currently being held at the (Office building name), and deliver a seminar on your field of work. It's a big academic opportunity that will really help your career, especially with your co-workers. They'll be in the crowd, so say something interesting!

Global Science Fair
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 7-10 School rabbit hole	Repeatable Received at work	Winning +25 Relationship with coworkers +25 Job performance Losing +15 Relationship with coworkers +15 Job performance	1 week
"Attend Competition" at the school between 11 AM and 5 PM on weekends and go to work.
The Global Science Fair has stopped in town – it's time for you to compete and show off your stuff! Such incredible revelations have emerged from this; such as the discovery of the world's flatness, patents for life-extending elixirs, and even theories about ghosts! Tune up your handiness, gardening, and fishing skills, and get to the school in the right mood and you just might win a cash prize and more!
Notes: The base chance of winning the opportunity is 20%, modified by up to +25% at level 10 Athletic skill, +25% at level 10 Gardening skill, +25% at level 10 Fishing skill, and +10% at maximum mood.

One Shall Fall
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 10 Abandoned warehouse rabbit hole	Repeatable Received at work	Winning §4,000 Losing "Singed" moodlet	Next work shift
"Stop Dr. Iniquitous" at the abandoned warehouse between 8 AM and 2 PM.
Dr. Iniquitous has devised another nefarious plot to destroy the town! Nobody should be able to use science for the wrong reasons... except you! Quickly go to the (Abandoned warehouse name) to match wits with him and stop his scientific scheming before it's too late. City Hall will reward you handsomely for your services!
Notes: The base chance of winning the opportunity is 20%, modified by up to +25% at level 10 Athletic skill, +25% at level 10 Gardening skill, +25% at level 10 Fishing skill, and +10% at maximum mood.

Skill

Nourishment for Herbivores
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 4-7 Gardening skill level 4-10	Repeatable Received at work	§1,000	6 days
Bring 3 very-nice-quality harvestables to work.
The livestock raised at the Science Facility have this annoying habit of requiring food. The Science Facility hopes to cut back on expenditures by outsourcing food production to... you! Grow 3 harvestables of Very Nice quality or better. Then bring them back to work to earn some extra Simoleons.

Catch of the Day
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 7-9 Fishing skill level 6-10	Repeatable Received at work	+25 Job performance +§5 Raise	6 days
Bring 2 robot fish to work.
The Science Facility is having difficulty breeding a few rare fish in captivity. The fish just aren't biting! Please put your lab coat aside, at least long enough to catch 2 rare fish. Bring them back to the lab with you and your job performance will increase. You'll also receive a raise!

Miscellaneous

The Best Evaporating Dish is a Clean One
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 1-3	Repeatable Received at work	+20 Job performance	Next work shift
Wash 5 dishes from the inventory and go to work.
A large portion of the Science Facility's equipment is dirty, making it useless for accurate, precision experiments and data collection. Take these five scientific dishes home and clean them. After all, the best evaporating dishes are the squeaky ones! Your service to the lab will increase your job performance.

Learn a Thing or Two
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
Science career level 3-9 Have a computer at home	Once per Sim Received at work	+30 Job performance	3 days
"Conduct Research" on a computer and go to work.
The Science Facility just doesn't have enough money in the budget to finance your current project, but you still need to finish your work! Science waits for no budget! Conduct your research at home on your personal computer, then return to work with your findings to improve your job performance.

Late Night Science
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
None	N/A	+20 Relationship with coworkers	N/A
Work overtime.
In order to complete an important experiment tomorrow, your lab partners need four large vats of sodium tetraphosphoride mixed, diluted with distilled water, burned over a clean Bunsen burner, and shaken vigorously. You'll need to work late to handle this request, but doing so will improve your standing with your co-workers.
Notes: This opportunity only exists in the game files.

Burning the Late Night Bunsen
Requirements	Availability	Rewards	Timeout
None	N/A	+20 Relationship with coworkers	N/A
Work overtime.
The Science Facility's chief researcher needs a reliable set of eyes to watch his Bunsen burners as they push his chemicals towards their point of reaction. You'll need to stay late to watch them, but in doing so, you'll help out your co-workers and progress the ever evolving course of science.
Notes: This opportunity only exists in the game files.