Freelance Famine

📖 The story

No salary. No safety. No steady paycheque ever lands in your Sim's account. They live gig to gig, feast to famine, riding the highs of a big commission and white-knuckling the weeks with nothing — for an entire lifetime.

💝 The goal

Support a Sim for a full lifetime and reach **§60,000** using only freelance and gig income.

🎀 Packs required

Packs recommended

🏡 Setup

🚀 Getting started

• Create one Sim and join the **Freelancer** career (or live on gig work and self-employment if you lack City Living). Modest starting funds:

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📋 General rules

• No money cheats after the §1,000 start.
• Earn with your own household only.
• No gifts or transfers.

✨ Specific rules

• Income only from the Freelancer career and odd gigs/self-employment.
• No salaried rabbit-hole job, ever.
• You must ride out the lean weeks — no taking a stable job to smooth them.

✅ What you can do

• Use the City Living Freelancer career (Writer, Programmer, Artist or Maker) plus odd-job gigs.
• Sell your freelance output for extra income.

⛔ What you can't do

• No salaried rabbit-hole careers — freelance and gig income only.
• No money cheats; no money from other households.

🎯 Objectives — complete the checklist

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🎮 If you don't own the packs

The Freelancer career needs City Living. Base-game stand-in: combine phone 'odd jobs' with self-employment (painting/writing/programming sold by the piece) as your freelance income to reach §60,000.

💡 Strategy tips

• Build a cash buffer in good weeks so a dry spell can't sink you — the famine is the whole point, but a cushion keeps you alive.
• Specialise: a single high-level freelance skill earns far more per gig than spreading thin.
• Keep bills low and a cheap food supply growing so a zero-income week costs you nothing fatal.

💕 Milestones — track your progress

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🔥 Want it harder?

• Impose a self-declared "dry month" each season where you bank no new gigs and must live on savings.
• No buffer allowed — you must always spend down below §500 before each new week.

🏆 Scoring

+1 per consecutive week you finish in the black; the longest unbroken solvent streak wins.

🎭 Variations

The *struggling-artist* version: only creative freelance gigs count, and your Sim must also chase fame. ---