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{{Era|TSLL|BO|TS2}}The '''Slacker''' [[career track]] is a career first introduced in ''[[The Sims: Livin' Large]]'', and made a comeback in ''[[The Sims 2]]''. The primary focus for Sims is to have a career in service. Neither ''[[The Sims 3]]'' or ''[[The Sims 4]]'' or any of their expansions have a
▲The '''Slacker''' [[career track]] is a career first introduced in ''[[The Sims: Livin' Large]]'', and made a comeback in ''[[The Sims 2]]''. The primary focus for Sims is to have a career in service. Neither ''[[The Sims 3]]'' or ''[[The Sims 4]]'' or any of their expansions have a Slacker career, though [[part-time job]]s in ''[[The Sims 3]]'' are similar.
== [[The Sims]] ==
[[File:Sims career path pay curves.png|thumb|200px|The pay curves may not have a clear hierarchy from best to worst, but they do have a clear best and a clear worst]]
In the base game, career tracks that had the highest pay at rank 1 had the lowest pay at rank 10, and vice versa. The slacker career path upended that expectation by having the lowest pay in every single rank out of all 15 career paths that existed at that point. In return, the hours were generally shorter, giving the Sim more time to build friendships, clean up around the house, piss on the floor, or do whatever they would rather be doing than working. However, reaching rank 10 required more friends (15) than any other career track except [[politics]] and [[paranormal]], so all that extra free time typically got wasted on inviting the neighbors over and chatting with them for hours just to get promoted. Later, ''[[The Sims: Unleashed]]'' expansion would add two career paths ([[culinary]] and [[circus]]) whose severely bent pay curves dipped below that of the slacker; however, slacker's pay curve was still the lowest and flattest overall. Out of all 20 real careers from ''The Sims'' and its expansion packs, slacker also has the absolute worst ratio of pay to friends required to reach rank 10 ($600/15 friends = 40), making it the least rewarding career track to climb. Only politics even comes close ($750/17 friends = 44.1).
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!colspan="4"|Slacker Career Levels
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! colspan="4" |5) Party D.J
|-
| rowspan="1" valign="top" |
'''Negative''': [[File:Got Fined.png|22px|link=Simoleon]] -§2000, [[File:Skill Charisma.png|22px|link=Charisma|Charisma skill]] -1
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| rowspan="1" valign="top" |Your long-time presence in an easy-going job has led you to believe you can handle anything - even a successful career in the music industry. Just hope that some of your party friends work for record companies, to help pave your way in your new career, so you can avoid paying some of your dues.
'''Positive''': Change to the [[Music (career)#The Sims|Music]] [[career track]] as a Back-up Musician.
|}
== [[The Sims Bustin' Out]] ==
The Slacker Career returns in The Sims: Bustin' Out as a Free Play exclusive Career.
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==[[The Sims 2]]==
'''Slacker''' is one of the ten basic careers in ''The Sims 2''. Similar to the Slacker career from ''Livin' Large'', it's one of the lowest paying careers. Also, it requires the fewest [[skill]]s of all careers for promotion, though it does require a high number of friends at the upper levels. If ''[[The Sims 2: Apartment Life]]'' is installed, [[
Oddly enough, the work uniform for teens and elders at the top of their career, working as "Convenience Store Clerks" wear the red fast food worker uniform for the culinary career, instead of the yellow and green shop assistant uniform adult sims wear at this level. This was presumably an error by the game developers.
===[[Adult]] Promotion Levels===
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| rowspan="4" valign="top" |<Sim> is caddying for Malcolm Landgrabb, head of Landgrabb Enterprises, who has just hit his second shot into the rough about 65 yards from the green. The business tycoon leans over and asks <Sim> whether he should use a nine iron or a wedge. <Sim> debates how to respond.
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''I dunno''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Whatever''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |2) Gas Station Attendant
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |<Sim> is sitting in his/her tiny sales kiosk listening to the sound of the rain beating against the bullet-proof glass. He/She has just begun to debate whether he/she should eat a YumCo Tiny-Cake or try one of the new flavors of Mystery Cheese Food, when a racy new sports car pulls up to the full-service pump and honks for service. Should <Sim> go on break, or just pretend not to notice?
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''On Break''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Pretend''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |3) Convenience Store Clerk
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |The store is empty, except of course for Crazy Bill (who just hangs out in the canned goods section talking about how he used to work for some big company that invested apricots), so <Sim> decides to walk around with a broom and pretend he's/she's sweeping. He/She spots a coin beneath the FriggleFreeze machine and jams the broom back behind the compressor to try to get it out. The machine goes haywire and starts spewing frozen Friggly liquid everywhere. Should <Sim> try to fix it with duct tape or with chewing gum?
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Duct Tape''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''50% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''49% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Gum''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''49% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''50% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |4) Record Store Clerk
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |<Sim>'s boss puts him/her in charge of choosing a house band for the store. The first two bands to audition are the Naughty Llamas and the Reticulated Splines. Both bands are good enough, so <Sim> decides to pick from the two and take the rest of the afternoon to alphabetize the store's vinyl collection by drummers' last name.
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Naughty Llamas''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''50% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''49% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Reticulated Splines''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''49% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''50% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |5) Party DJ
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |<Sim> gets a call to spin at, what a party promoter only describes as, a "big gig going down tonight," but in his/her excitement, <Sim> forgot to ask what type of music to bring, and has failed to get a contact number. He/She can't possibly bring all his/her vinyl, so he/she needs to make a decision and bring either the latest hits or the golden oldies.
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Hits''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Oldies''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |6) Projectionist
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |On the opening night of Hugh Martin's latest film "The Colour of Simoleons", <Sim> discovers that the reels arrived damaged. Most of the film is fine, but a few sections won't run clearly through the projector unless they're reattached. Should <Sim> splice the film back together, or take the chance and substitute the art film he/she made in high school?
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Splice''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Substitute''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |7) Home Video Editor
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |A local Studio Town music video director has asked <Sim> to cut together some stock 8mm footage he needs to round out the transitions for a video. <Sim> only has a few hours, so he/she doesn't have any time to shoot any new footage, but his/her stock of 8mm reels isn't very extensive. The director has asked for a single theme that will fit with the "frantic, but youthful" nature of the video. <Sim> searches through his/her archive and settles on two options, a reel he/she has of Sonny, SimCity's own tragic clown, or some old footage of bunny rabbits sneaking carrots out of a small residential garden.
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Tragic Clown''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''15% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''84% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Bunny Rabbits''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''84% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''15% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |8) Freelance Photographer
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |In exchange for taking some digital pictures for their corporate web presence, ALlamaInEveryHome.com offers <Sim> 1000 shares of their stock in lieu of his/her usual fee. Word on the street is that tech stocks are good investments again, but <Sim> doesn't want to get burned like he/she did in the last dot com bubble burst with those four different online pet food delivery sites he/she bought into.
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Take Stock''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''15% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''84% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Demand Cash''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''84% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''15% chance''
|-
! colspan="4" |9) Freelance Web Designer
|-
| rowspan="4" valign="top" |A marketing rep <Sim> met while working for ALlamaInEveryHome.com is starting up a new website dedicated to SimCity's social scene. Knowing that <Sim> is pretty well connected, she's asked him/her to design the website, but she also wants him/her to update the site with all the "coolest parties, and trendiest places." <Sim>'s willing to take the job and design the website, but he/she isn't sure about publishing the inner circle's social itinerary. He/She could go ahead and reveal all he/she knows, or protect the fragile private lives of SimCity's elite and fill the site with erroneous information.
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Reveal All''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
| rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Erroneous Info''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''14% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''85% chance''
|-
!colspan="4" |10) Professional Party Guest
|-
|rowspan="4" valign="top" |<Sim>'s at a party for some famous Sim he's/she's never met, but the party's pretty uneventful, and there aren't any photographers from the society column, so he's/she's debating ducking out. But before he/she can make up his/her mind, the party promoter makes his way over to him/her and asks him/her if there's anything he/she can do to liven up the place. Not wanting to be taken off the A-list, <Sim> figures he/she better do something to spice up the party. <Sim> could start one of his/her patented sing-alongs, or grab another drink and streak the living room.
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Sing''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''50% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''49% chance''
|-
|rowspan="2" valign="top" |''Streak''
|'''Success:'''<br />
|''49% chance''
|-
|'''Failure:'''<br />
|''50% chance''
|}
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