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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).
{|class="prettytable unsortable" style="width:100%"
!colspan="4"|Slacker Career Levels
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'''Positive''': Change to the [[Music (career)#The Sims|Music]] [[career track]] as a Back-up Musician.
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== [[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, [[Social class#Gearheads|Gearheads]] are likely to work in this career. College majors associated with this career are Philosophy, Literature and Art. The career is usually a want of a [[Sim]] with the [[Romance]] or the [[Pleasure]] [[Aspiration (The Sims 2)|aspiration]], but can be chosen by any Sim at the age of [[teen]], [[adult]] or [[elder]]. The [[Career rewards|career reward object]] is an AquaGreen Hydroponic Garden. It is awarded at the Party DJ level and builds the [[creativity (skill)|creativity]] skill.
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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|'''Failure:'''<br />No Penalty
|''85% chance''
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! colspan="4" |2) Gas Station Attendant
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Got Fined.png|22px|link=Simoleon]] Lose a day's pay (§154)
|''85% chance''
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! colspan="4" |3) Convenience Store Clerk
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Skill Mechanical.png|22px|link=Mechanical|Mechanical Skill]] -1
|''50% chance''
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! colspan="4" |4) Record Store Clerk
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Skill Charisma.png|22px|link=Charisma|Charisma Skill]] -1
|''50% chance''
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! colspan="4" |5) Party DJ
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Got Fined.png|22px|link=Simoleon]] Lose a day's pay (§385)<br />[[File:Skill Charisma.png|22px|link=Charisma|Charisma Skill]] -1
|''85% chance''
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! colspan="4" |6) Projectionist
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Got Fired.png|22px|link=Career#Firings|Fired]] Get Fired<br />[[File:Skill Creativity.png|22px|link=Creativity (skill)|Creativity Skill]] -1
|''85% chance''
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! colspan="4" |7) Home Video Editor
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Got Fined.png|22px|link=Simoleon]] Lose a day's pay (§613)<br />[[File:Skill Creativity.png|22px|link=Creativity (skill)|Creativity Skill]] -1
|''15% chance''
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! colspan="4" |8) Freelance Photographer
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Skill Mechanical.png|22px|link=Mechanical|Mechanical Skill]] -2
|''15% chance''
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! colspan="4" |9) Freelance Web Designer
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|'''Failure:'''<br />[[File:Got Fired.png|22px|link=Career#Firings|Fired]] Get Fired
|''85% chance''
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!colspan="4" |10) Professional Party Guest
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