Free-Form Career Legacy Challenge

The title is fairly self-explanatory: this challenge revolves around careers! The goal is to play a family legacy, with each generation focusing on one career. The challenge finishes when your final generation reaches max level of the last career.

This is a free-form challenge, so you don't have to do a specific career for a specific generation. The idea is that you pick the career that best suits your sim rather than forming your sim to fit the career. Pay attention to them as they grow and develop, and figure out which career they'd have the most fun with. 

The rules:

• You must keep every object your sim earns from their career and put it somewhere in your house.
• Each generation needs to get to level 10 of their career, or otherwise max out levels. If you fail to reach max level before your sims dies, you cannot proceed to the next generation's career. Either make their ghost continue, ambrosia/magic them back to life, or completely restart if you want max difficulty.
• If you decide to do multiple careers for your sim but only complete the first, you can still proceed.
• The next generation's work will not be counted until their parent has maxed out their career.
• Each generation must be biologically related, and not a science baby. When you get so focused on your career, you can forget to build a relationships. Plus dealing with pregnancy symptoms adds another level of difficulty. If you get a spouse or a BFF you see regularly, you can ignore this rule and have the next gen however you want.
• Spouses count towards career completion, but they have to be married. If they fail to max level then it doesn't count towards completion, but you may still proceed to the next generation and re-do that career later. You may have more than one spouse, or choose to get married the day before they die, or divorce a day after the wedding, it still counts. Again, the goal is to make sure you put in time for relationships.
• If you have twins and keep them living together their entire lives, both can count towards career completion but only one of them can pass the legacy to their child.
• If you want to prolong the challenge, do both branches of a career (ie. both author and journalist for the writing career). Note that once you pick a branch your sim can never switch to the other branch.

Optional rules:

• Freelancers, vet, odd-jobs, retail, and part-time jobs do not need to count as careers but you may include them and decide how many of those you wish to do.
• Try to get every occult type into your family tree (it's funnier to do vampires early on because then they'll show up randomly in later gens, if you like that sort of chaos).
• Avoid cheats as much as possible!
• Live in the same house for the entire duration.
• Have each generation live in completely different worlds and sections of each world.
• Keep generation 1 around as a ghost and have each generation visit them to pay respects in the form of gifts, hugs, or selfies together.
• Complete all aspiration types.
• Take a picture/have a painting made of each generation and put it in a special place.
• Have a pet for every generation, or every other generation.
• For a rotational-style challenge, have 2 legacy branches going simultaneously.
• Make each generation have at least two kids.
• Any clothing you earn from your career must be given to them as a regular outfit.
• Use each of your career abilities at least once.
• Get every type of physical coloration (for example, every hair color, eye color, and throw in a few inhuman skin colors)

With 11 careers in base game (excluding freelancer), the minimum number of generations (if each one has a spouse) is 5-6 generations. If each one and their spouse manages 2 careers each, it's only like 2 generations XD
The maximum number, if you have absolutely every single pack + never get married + include stuff like freelancers and retail + do both branches of each career, is somewhere around 50-60 generations. Obviously that's a bit daunting, so it's up to you what you want to count as career completion! And if you're up for that challenge, I fear you!

This is the only challenge I've ever completed because I like Freedom and Chaos. So if you're like me and have struggled with most other challenges, maybe this is the one for you!

Happy simming!