Hi guys, my sim is working in Athlete career. Yesterday, he got promoted to level 5 and got the popup for choosing one of 2 branches, Super Athlete and Body Builder. I picked Super Athlete and switched the active household to another straightaway. I played the other household only for one night, then cam back to the active sim in the morning. Suddenly, his career level is set to Personal trainer in Bodybuilder field, not Minor Leaguer in Super Athlete and late at work in morning time! I don't want to go to body builder. Is there any good idea of going back to Miner Leaguer or even cheats please? I found only promotion and demote cheat for career. Thanks in advance.

"Floofje;14726954" wrote:Yes, there's a cheat for that.First, make sure cheats are enabled and then you can type in:careers.demote .And then careers.promote If I'm correct you should be able to pick one of the two branches again. :smile: http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/cheats.phpcareers.demote X also works, causing a Sim to go back a level. You cannot use this to go back to the branch choice for a career - if you're at the first level of a branch, you'll be fired using this.My sim got fired. ;(

"Jeansoo;14726997" wrote:"jessathemessa;14726985" wrote:"Jeansoo;14726978" wrote:"ChloeDeCookie;14726945" wrote:the demote cheat should work. go to level 4, promote to lvl 5 and pick the super athlete pathI tried that and he got fired. :( Its shown as he lost job. Take the job again and try the promote cheat?Yeah I tried that too and it says,'hiring personal trainer at body builder'. Bummer :(Any previous saves?Or do you have a copy of the sim in your library? You'd have to rebuild (or cheat in) all the skills and relationships. Can't really think of anything else.

For someone reason picking a branch is like getting a brand new career. Quitting and rejoining will only let you join back at that branch and that level, and using the demote cheat just fires you.If you're not adverse to mods there's one that lets you call to switch your branch at any time, that's the only way I've been able to do it.

"jessathemessa;14727006" wrote:"Jeansoo;14726997" wrote:"jessathemessa;14726985" wrote:"Jeansoo;14726978" wrote:"ChloeDeCookie;14726945" wrote:the demote cheat should work. go to level 4, promote to lvl 5 and pick the super athlete pathI tried that and he got fired. :( Its shown as he lost job. Take the job again and try the promote cheat?Yeah I tried that too and it says,'hiring personal trainer at body builder'. Bummer :(Any previous saves?Or do you have a copy of the sim in your library? You'd have to rebuild (or cheat in) all the skills and relationships. Can't really think of anything else.Unfortunately, there's no way to go back, I've been making stories between 2 households. If I replace that sims from library, then all story will get broken I've made. It's ok. I can just let him go to body builder. Thank you very much for help. :) I don't want to use any custom mods for this.

This might take time, but you could be horrible at your job to get yourself demoted to level 4, and then get promoted back to 5 again. That's the only other possible way you can change it. So much effort.

Is there an idea of going back to lower career level?

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Feffdoodle
6 years ago
This might take time, but you could be horrible at your job to get yourself demoted to level 4, and then get promoted back to 5 again. That's the only other possible way you can change it. So much effort.
aodoherty
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Feffdoodle;c-17411637" wrote:
This might take time, but you could be horrible at your job to get yourself demoted to level 4, and then get promoted back to 5 again. That's the only other possible way you can change it. So much effort.

I found there's another way to get back to the other branch. Save your active family in the library and start a new game with that family, then you will be able to select the other branch.
Admiral8Q
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
@Jeansoo
Easiest way I can think of is quit the career. Start it again, and cheat promote as many times to what you want. In this case to where you want the different career paths. Then when you pick the one you want, you can keep promoting up to what it was originally, if you like.

From Carl's Sim 4 Guide:

How to: Athlete Career Cheats
Press Control + Shift + C then type testingcheats on and press enter.
You can now get promotions with careers.promote athletic
aodoherty
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Admiral8Q;c-17411713" wrote:
@Jeansoo
Easiest way I can think of is quit the career. Start it again, and cheat promote as many times to what you want. In this case to where you want the different career paths. Then when you pick the one you want, you can keep promoting up to what it was originally, if you like.

From Carl's Sim 4 Guide:

How to: Athlete Career Cheats
Press Control + Shift + C then type testingcheats on and press enter.
You can now get promotions with careers.promote athletic

That's not possible unfortunately.. :( Because you will start from at least level 9 at the same branch if you quit that career after reaching to level 10. For examples, you reached up to level 10 at chef branch in culinary career, then you quit the career, then get the culinary career again, then you will start from the level 9 at chef branch. You are not allowed to go back to the mixology branch. If you low your career level down to level 4 which you can start from the both branch, then you will be fired. This is what I experienced many times.
CaprianaB
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
This is disappointing. I was hoping to switch my eGamer to the other programming branch so his work hours are more in line with his wife's.
peragogo
6 years ago
Have you tried rolling back the save? It sounds like not much happened between household swaps.
atreya33
Legend
6 years ago
The only in game method I know to switch career branches is send your sim to university and get the corresponding degree. After graduation you can select the branch directly when you select a new job.

If you don't mind mods you can use mccc. that mod has an option to reset the career branch, something which really should be added to the game.
aodoherty
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"peragogo;c-17412836" wrote:
Have you tried rolling back the save? It sounds like not much happened between household swaps.
Sorry but I don't understand what you mean.
aodoherty
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
"Atreya33;c-17412912" wrote:
The only in game method I know to switch career branches is send your sim to university and get the corresponding degree. After graduation you can select the branch directly when you select a new job.

If you don't mind mods you can use mccc. that mod has an option to reset the career branch, something which really should be added to the game.

Yes that's the perfect way to switch the branch with DU pack. :) Without the pack and mod, unfortunately, there are only 2 ways to switch the branch.

1. Select other career for a couple of months on sim days, then the level you can get lower down than it used to be. So you can start from 5 or 4 eventually.
2. Just take the one branch of all jobs in the Sims 4, then save your sim into library, then open that sim in the new game. Then you can get the other branches all without any Eps and mods. My sims used to do that way and completed almost of all aspirations.
atreya33
Legend
6 years ago
I had no idea that saving sims to the library and add them back to the game had that effect. Good to know there is possibility to switch without a specific expansion pack or a mod.

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