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Career & Skill

Self-Employment Only

No boss, no alarm clock, no rabbit-hole career rabbit-holing them away each morning.

โœฆ Set your packs to confirm this works for you
Type
Career ยท Self-Sufficiency
Difficulty
Hard
Length
Single lifetime
Best for
Players who want freedom from the 9-to-5

Difficulty (1โ€“5 plumbobs): 1 Casual ยท 2 Moderate ยท 3 Hard ยท 4 Brutal ยท 5 Extreme

๐Ÿ“– The story

No boss, no alarm clock, no rabbit-hole career rabbit-holing them away each morning. Your Sim earns every Simoleon on their own terms โ€” freelance gigs, sold paintings, caught fish, written words โ€” and never once collects a salary.

๐Ÿ’ The goal

Earn a comfortable living for a whole lifetime using **only freelance and self-employed** income โ€” never a salaried job.

๐ŸŽ€ Packs required

โœ“ Base game only

Packs recommended

City LivingGet to Work

๐Ÿก Setup

LotA small home-studio
Fundsยง1,000
AgingOn, normal
SimsOne self-starter

๐Ÿš€ Getting started

  • Create a Sim and commit to self-employment from day one โ€” register as a freelancer or simply live off sold creations.

โŒจ๏ธ Cheats to type

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๐Ÿ“‹ General rules

  • No salaried career, ever.
  • Income comes from freelance gigs, sold goods, and skill-based hustles.
  • Sustain a comfortable life this way for the full lifetime.

โœจ Specific rules

  • Acceptable income: the Freelancer career, selling paintings/books/crafts, fishing, gardening, a home retail business.
  • No rabbit-hole or active *salaried* job.
  • The Sim must stay solvent the whole life.

โœ… What you can do

  • Earn through freelance gigs, odd jobs, and selling crafts or produce; City Living's Freelancer career counts.
  • Use `bb.moveobjects`.

โ›” What you can't do

  • Never take a salaried (rabbit-hole) job.
  • No money cheats; the whole life is self-employed.

๐ŸŽฏ Objectives โ€” complete the checklist

0 of 5 done ยท 0%

๐ŸŽฎ If you don't own the packs

Fully base-game โ€” the Freelancer career needs City Living, but base-game self-employment (skills, odd jobs, selling) works fine.

๐Ÿ’ก Strategy tips

  • The **Freelancer** career (City Living) gives structure and gig variety without a boss โ€” a great backbone.
  • Diversify: a painter who also gardens and sells crafts weathers slow gig weeks.
  • Reinvest early earnings into better skill objects to raise the value of everything you make.

๐Ÿ’• Milestones โ€” track your progress

0 of 5 done ยท 0%

๐Ÿ”ฅ Want it harder?

  • Build genuine **wealth** (ยง500,000+) on self-employment alone.
  • Run an actual **retail store** (Get to Work) as the sole income.

๐ŸŽญ Variations

A "small business empire" version building a retail or restaurant venture from scratch. ---

Original โ€” Plumbob, built around freelance and self-employment systems. ยท Last tested: Patch 1.108 โ€” Feb 2026