While everybody would prefer a life of leisure, you must find a source of income if you want to succeed.
There are multiple ways to rake in the Simoleons, including the advancement of certain skills as detailed earlier in this chapter.
However, there are more traditional ways of finding an income: careers.
To sign up for a career, you simply report to the building that headquarters the job, such as the military base or police station. Applying is as easy as left-clicking on the location and then choosing the offered career.
When your Sim reports to the job location, the career is immediately offered and the starting position/salary flashed on-screen. If you accept, you are given a schedule and expected to show up at the designated times.
There are multiple ways to advance a career.
Promotions are the most common benchmark of success and always come with a one-time Simoleon bonus, but there are social aspects to each career that involve getting to know co-workers, which has the potential to widen your circle of friends.
While at work, you can set the “tone” for your performance, which affects how you interact with co-workers or approach the job itself. As you advance, your schedule changes and your salary rises. Typically, there are perks or benefits for hitting certain promotions.
Tones
Although you do not actually see what your Sim is up to when they are on the job, you can dictate their general behavior for that work day through tones. Tones include behaviors such as working hard, getting to know co-workers, and sucking up to the boss.
Some careers have unique tones, such as the Do a Side Job tone of the Criminal career.
Many of these tones play into earning promotions at work, so look at the provided promotion metrics for each career to see what tones are best for the next step in that career.