Career & Skill
Self-Employment Only
No boss, no alarm clock, no rabbit-hole career rabbit-holing them away each morning.
Difficulty (1โ5 plumbobs): 1 Casual ยท 2 Moderate ยท 3 Hard ยท 4 Brutal ยท 5 Extreme
๐ 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.
๐ The goal
Earn a comfortable living for a whole lifetime using **only freelance and self-employed** income โ never a salaried job.
๐ Packs required
Packs recommended
๐ก Setup
๐ Getting started
- Create a Sim and commit to self-employment from day one โ register as a freelancer or simply live off sold creations.
โจ๏ธ Cheats to type
testingcheats truemoney 1000๐ 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.
โจ 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.
โ 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.
๐ฏ Objectives โ complete the checklist
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๐ฎ 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.
๐ก 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.
๐ Milestones โ track your progress
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๐ฅ Want it harder?
- Build genuine **wealth** (ยง500,000+) on self-employment alone.
- Run an actual **retail store** (Get to Work) as the sole income.
๐ญ 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