What is your favorite way for your sims to earn a living? Do you play your favorite careers, do certain skills, own businesses? I love hearing what everyone enjoys the most!

My main game doesn't have Seasons so my sims usually are dragon fruit farmers, with some bird of paradise and other high value plants on the side. Latest harvest brought in some $85,000 just in dragon fruit. Several sims are level 10 archaeologists, which brings in a nice income as well.

Gardening and painting are both a bit overpowered when it comes to money. I try to avoid those, except for sims who are genuinely into gardening or painting as a major part of their lives. I also try to avoid having my sims be super-rich unless that's a major life goal for them.These days my sims kinda do whatever fits them as people... my writer writes, my athlete athletes, my figuring-it-out spellcaster who loves singing sings at the lounge occasionally, my social media expert makes videos, etc.

I found recently that making a sim a writer was a bit over powered. I sent my sims on holiday, she made 30K in a week while doing nothing. I swear this family wasn't meant to be this rich. My other sim is currently studying to become a doctor, but while she' study they can still afford the upkeep on a 200K house and a butler. It's pretty nice to not worry about money there.

"Babycakelings;c-18216053" wrote:I found recently that making a sim a writer was a bit over powered. I sent my sims on holiday, she made 30K in a week while doing nothing. I swear this family wasn't meant to be this rich. My other sim is currently studying to become a doctor, but while she' study they can still afford the upkeep on a 200K house and a butler. It's pretty nice to not worry about money there.Writing is incredibly OP. I had to cut my sim back from writing because they were making bank. I like a good struggle with money

If I have working sims, then their career is their income. However if they have no job then I love using painting to make money. To me it is not too easy as you work up to the more expensive paintings as you skill up. I did use thrifty once and its way too easy, I made an outfit and sold it for 1000000 and it sold no problem LOL, I consider it a bit cheaty ;)

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susanleona
New Scout
2 years ago
I have a mother and daughter in HOB. They farm and the mom does odd jobs and paints. Daughter sells her knits.
OldeSimsFan
New Traveler
2 years ago
Another option for those who have DU is to give skills lectures. Not big money but it's an excuse to visit a college, experiment with it, and maybe decide to send a sim there who is older than the usual candidate.
manicobsessive1
Seasoned Newcomer
2 years ago
If only you could use cheats and money trees in real life. :D Nah, I don't really like to cheat. I usually play an active or semi-active career, but I have a Sim who is about to leave Uni with a biology degree, and she is going to by a Vetinary Practice. I've never played the vet career before, and I love animals, so this should be fun!
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
I use mods and my Sim is a Rock Star. He became a Global Superstar while a Teen. He's been earning all kinds of Simoleons ever since. Royalties on songs he writes, which vary. If it's up for Best Song, the royalties grow. Albums give a cool 750 Simoleons per album. He now has 21 released. A concert done well, reaps 10000 as does each photoshoot for a magazine. He does one of each, daily. It's highly lucrative and he and his sweet wife are living very nicely in HoB.

Spoiler

Erik's HoB Cottage on the Hill:
https://i.imgur.com/8QRnDnJ.jpg
They moved in directly after graduation from Britechester-U
LadyCatz
2 years ago
9 Roses, 6 Lilly, 2 Death Flowers. In a plot of their own!
mcrudd
Seasoned Vanguard
2 years ago
Book of life information for those that would like to know.

Spoiler
Information from here https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/skills/writing/
https://i.imgur.com/HQJxE7A.png
Liebeslottchen
2 years ago
When I don't use the motherlode cheat my sims make money by painting & fishing. Or I cheat some money for them for starters and then I give them jobs.
deb65esuerdve
2 years ago
Painting is great way to make money quickly. Gardening and writing ads up over time, however gardening requires less time to start.
DaniRose2143
Hero
2 years ago
"Ellupelluellu;c-18216310" wrote:
"DaniRose2143;c-18216293" wrote:
Painting is really lucrative once you get to level 5 or 6 and above. It's bonkers if you give them the creative visionary and marketable traits too. It's easy with a max skill painter to produce 5K simoleon paintings, some of them well over 10K. I think the best one of my sims paintings fetched was 17K. I've read where some simmers have seen more than 20K for a single painting.

paintings sold in plopsy can give real big money. I thought first doing that in R2R , but way too big money at some point.

I’ve seen that option but it’s habit to click sell to collector. I’ll have try that next time.
Thehiddenreturn
2 years ago
Usually I garden, because once you get a higher skill and gain access to the better plants, you can make alot more money compared to other jobs. Writing though is more fun for me because you get to name your book and say something about it. No job is really fun or anything, but working a regular type job and having your sim leave home for 5 hours is the most boring thing in jobs. Unless you have other sims to control. So Painting, Writing and GArdening are my go toos.