What's your favorite way to make money?

I find many of the rabbithole careers to be very satisfying to work through, but my favorite is when my sims provide goods or services and make money by actually charging the customers being served for whatever is being produced or provided. This is one reason why many newly starting out worlds are a bit frustrating for me to play for a while, no one else in town has any money yet! (depends on the world, though)

But this poll question really needed an Other choice because there is one obvious answer that I am surprised no one has mentioned yet.

Q: What's your favorite way to make money?
A: There's only one way. With a printing press, of course! >:)

I chose self employment, but I also have my sims collect objects on the ground like gems, seeds and metals.

Erm.. they also spend a lot of time at the wishing well hoping to find the keys to a car so they can sell it ..

I love the showtime careers. Since they get a majority of their money from tips and performances, I chose perform for tips. That said Ambition careers such as the architect career run a close second.

Wow. Eleven hours, and self-employment is running away with it. I suppose it makes sense, though, as making stuff to sell gives the player the best combination of a reliable income and flexible work hours when needed. I somehow always end up with a gardener in my (inevitably overstuffed) households, at least one writer, and a sim or two who end up painting because I don't know what else to do with their free time. Besides, with a handful of screaming toddlers in the house, someone has to be able to drop the paintbrush and tend to their needs. It's not like the astronaut can fly home from the space station to change a dirty diaper.

It's a mix between Rabbithole & Self-employment.

It's not a popular opinion but I like rabbitholes. Happy middle ground... They can still look great standing as a shell to fill out a town without the computer having to load the inside and it's easier to manage a busy household. I do prefer my sims to disappear into a building instead of the street.

Self-employment is great leaving more free time and more money. I've just started using custom self-employed career mods to expand what the game+packs already offer.

Professions are fun and I do occasionally play them but they can easily become a chore and boring so I treat them like World Adventures tomb raiding... Every other generation or longer depending on the sim.

I often start with self employment until their house is built on the lot and have them get part time jobs later on as the town starts off empty and gradually gets new residents over time.I have some in jobs right away and others might invest after making enough money.

I didn't vote, but it all depends on which Sim it is, what type of career I give them, which category it eventually slots into.

I'm currently playing a Sim that's self-employed as a writer. But I do plan on doing other games with Sims with rabbithole jobs and others.

I go more by the career itself than its location/tasks/etc.

I went with the Ambitions Professions since most of my saves have my SS and either her boyfriend or husband in them. I have the bf/hubby go to work while I keep my SS at home working on her skills. I do have one save where I do have my SS as a self-employed homemaker which is a career mod from NRass..

I do have a save with my Scooby Doo and the Gang where Freddy is a ghost hunter while I have Velma working part time at the bookstore. I have Shaggy upping his cooking and gardening skills while I have Daphne doing the MA skill and I have her using the drafting table for designing clothes.

My current save that I have now has my SS as a self-employed painter plus she writes books on the side. She will soon be moving in with her romantic interest as she is in the family way now and there's no room in the house to raise a child.

Two of my favorite ways to make money were not included in the poll - apply for extra funds at university and the familyfunds cheat (usually so they can afford a lot for a particular scenario).

I also like to make money via the rabbit-hole careers and the self-employed professions (although I don't usually have more than 1 of those in a household) and also traveling (not necessarily tomb raiding exclusively).

No matter how I get my initial investment I almost always buy rabbit-hole partnerships. I usually don't buy the rabbit-hole businesses or venues but have tried both. There are certain partnerships that will return the initial investment the fastest (5 weeks) - the spa/bookstore combo, the film back lot, the hospital, the business/bistro combo and the hospital/science lab combo. Some partnerships will recover almost all of the initial investment in 5 weeks - sports stadium, equestrian center and science lab.

ETA: If I haven't gotten money via uni or familyfunds cheat I will often create a 10X10 lot and move my sim there. They will usually travel to China to increase their gardening skill and to pay for the trip with a little extra. They will actually sleep, shower, watch TV and eat at community lots nearby because as much of their money as can be spared is invested. Although they can't initially afford one of the fast-return partnerships (spa/bookstore is the cheapest at $20,000) they will invest as much as they can that first week. With a rabbit-hole job with promotions and the dividend payout from the first Monday and selling that initial partnership by the second Sunday they can afford one of the better partnerships.

Since I play on normal life span with 21 days in the young adult stage my sims don't have much time to accumulate some money, find a partner and start having kids. So sometimes I will start a game with my main sim as a child with parent(s), but most often with a grandparent. In those cases I don't apply for funds from uni or use familyfunds cheat but by the time my sim is a young adult they have at least one of the fast-return partnerships. With that guaranteed weekly income my sim usually becomes self-employed but does not have to slave away at it to live comfortably.

I usually do rabbithole careers. I have tried a profession but they drive me nuts because I end up doing more work than my sim does.

My sim is doing the job... not me. lol.

I also like self-employment such as writing, gardening, etc. I will have at least one sim in my house doing that. It allows great flexibility. I would like to make $1,000 per week in royalties in real life.