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Contents

  • Essentials
    • What's New
      • What's New
      • A World Without Limits
    • Creating A Sim
      • A New You
      • Personality
      • Family and Aging
      • Making Catherine Browne
    • Creating a House
      • Creating a House
      • Building Basics
      • Buying a Lot
      • Build Mode
      • Furnished Lots and Pre-Set Lives
      • Households
      • Cheat Sheet
    • A Day in the Life
      • The Essentials
      • Wishes
      • Skills
      • Careers
      • Mood Maintenance
      • Relationships and Socializing
      • Meet the Brownes
      • Getting Settled
      • Making the Most
      • Keep On Keepin’ On
    • Traits
      • Traits
    • Moods
      • Mood
      • Moodlets
      • Positive Moodlets
      • Neutral Moodlets
      • Negative Moodlets
    • Wishes
      • Wishes
      • Lifetime Wishes
      • Wishes List
      • Lifetime Happiness Points
    • Skills
      • Skills
      • Athletic
      • Charisma
      • Cooking
      • Fishing
      • Gardening
      • Guitar
      • Handiness
      • Logic
      • Painting
      • Writing
    • Careers
      • Careers
      • Business
      • Criminal
      • Culinary
      • Journalism
      • Law Enforcement
      • Medical
      • Military
      • Music
      • Politics
      • Professional Sports
      • Science
      • Part-time Work
      • School
    • Opportunities
      • Opportunities
      • Skills Opportunities
      • Careers Opportunities
    • Relationships and Aging
      • Relationships
      • Friendships (and Enemies)
      • Romance
      • Socializing
      • Family and Aging
      • Having a Family
      • Death
      • Service Sims
    • Tour of Sunset Valley
      • City Life
      • Places of Employment
      • Shopping and Commerce
      • Community Spots
      • Fishing Spots
      • Places to Go Collecting
    • Design Corner
      • Truly Custom Content
      • Winsome Farmhouse
      • Le Grand Palace
      • FoxGlen Manor
      • The Cherry Tree Houses
      • Richmond Manor
    • Object Catalog
      • Object Catalog
      • Living Room
      • Kitchen
      • Dining Room
      • Bedroom
      • Bathroom
      • Study
      • Kids’ Room
      • Multi-Room Objects
      • Outdoors and Landscaping
      • Object Interactions
    • Community
      • Sharing with the World

The Sims 3 Guide › Essentials › Careers

Business

The business career unfolds exactly as you might expect. Sims dutifully report to work in the morning to attend meetings and climb the corporate ladder. As you approach the top of the career ranking, the requirements to reach each new promotion become harder to juggle. But that should be expected for a career with such incredible financial rewards. You cannot coast. You must work hard, appealing to both the boss and co-workers so that one day that corner office is yours.

Work Location:

Doo Peas Corporate Towers

How Hired:

Report to business tower, answer computer ad, answer newspaper ad

Work Week:

The career is a Monday through Friday job with normal business hours. At first, the hours are a little longer. However, over time, those hours are spread out across meetings that are required as part of the job at different times.

Salary Progression:

This career pays very little at first. However, when you move up the ranks, the Simoleon rewards grow exponentially. As you close in on the top levels of the career, the salary is huge.

Level Position Work Days Start Time Length of Day Average Daily Pay Weekly
Average Pay
Pension Pay Metrics for Promotion
1 Coffee Courier M, T, W, TH, F 8 AM 6 160 800 40 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss
2 Filing Clerk M, T, W, TH, F 8 AM 6 208 1,040 50 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss
3 Report Processor M, T, W, TH, F 8 AM 6 271 1,355 70 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss, Relationship w/ Co-Workers
4 Corporate Drone M, T, W, TH, F 8 AM 6 353 1,765 90 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss, Relationship w/ Co-Workers
5 Department Head M, T, W, TH, F 8 AM 7 530 2,650 130 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss, Relationship w/ Co-Workers
6 Division Manager M, T, W, TH, F 8 AM 7 689 3,445 170 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss, Relationship w/ Co-Workers, Meetings Held
7 Vice President M, T, W, TH, F 8 AM 7 896 4,480 220 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss, Relationship w/ Co-Workers, Meetings Held
8 CEO M, T, TH, F 8 AM 6 1,434 5,736 280 Mood, Relationship w/ Boss, Relationship w/ Co-Workers, Meetings Held
9 Venture Capitalist M, T, TH, F 8 AM 6 1,721 6,884 330 Mood, Relationship w/ Co-Workers, Meetings Held
10 Power Broker M, T, TH 8 AM 3 947 2,841 400 Mood, Relationship w/ Co-Workers, Meetings Held
Tones Description
Hold Meetings Available to schedule meetings, slows performance growth
Meet Co-Workers Build relationship with co-workers
Chat at Water Cooler Build relationship with co-workers
Suck Up to Boss Build relationship with boss
Power Work Work hard to increase performance, but adds stress

Benefits and Rewards

To work your way up this career, you must have a good relationship with the boss. This can be achieved by the Suck Up to Boss tone, but this risks alienating co-workers. This turns into a problem later in the career when the relationship with co-workers becomes a metric for which your promotion is judged. Being charismatic can help with this career because after meeting co-workers on the job, you can then improve those relationships outside working hours.

Tip

The Business career is the easiest to master because it requires the fewest skills.

Once you reach the Division Manager promotion, you can start holding meetings and meeting opportunities come regularly. Making these meetings becomes a critical metric for making additional promotions. Here, the career starts to consume a lot of time and attention.

Tip

Don’t worry about missing scheduled work hours to attend meetings. Meetings supersede scheduled work at the Doo Peas Towers.

Note

When you earn the CEO promotion, you ride to work in a limo.

One of the key benefits of this career comes at the top promotion to Power Broker. Now, you have complete control over working hours by choosing to hold meetings at your whim. You are paid for these meetings, too, so you have control over how much money is made during that specific day. A day full of meetings is very lucrative. This flexibility allows the Power Broker to pursue different skills or attend to a household without worrying about a heavy work schedule.

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