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The Sims 4 career cheats to get ahead in the workplace

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Sims 4 career cheats let you take control of your whatever full or part time jobs you have. Get an instant promotion, start a job, quit a job, retire with a pension, or even change work uniforms, pretty much anything work-related can be changed with these codes, giving you complete control of your professional life. 

Plus, if you're tired of grinding at levelling up certain skills to get ahead in your career, this, along with the Sims 4 skill cheats, will eliminate the problem. For more general codes our Sims 4 cheats guide will put you in control of far more general and sweeping changes - from more Simoleons (or, you can learn how to get more money in Sims 4), to the Sims 4 debug cheats to unlock a whole new world of items. Here, however, it's all about the best Sims 4 career cheats.

How to enable The Sims 4 career cheats

You’ll need to open the cheat console to enable career cheats in The Sims 4. How, depends on what you're playing on: 

  • The Sims 4 PC cheats: Hold Ctrl and Shift, then press c
  • The Sims 4 Mac cheats: Hold Command (⌘) and Shift, then press c
  • The Sims 4 PS4 cheats: Hold down all the four shoulder buttons at once
  • The Sims 4 Xbox One cheats: Hold down all four shoulder buttons at once

Activate the cheats and a text box will appear across the top of the The Sims 4 screen where you can enter your chosen cheat code.

The Sims 4 career cheats

A woman levelling up skills in The Sims 4

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To use The Sims 4 career cheats to give yourself a promotion simply click the sim you want to change and enter careers.promote in the cheat console, followed by the name of the career you want to advance. You must have actually started this career first though. Each time you use this, you’ll advance a level. So, you can keep repeating this cheat until you reach the top.

You can also use the cheats below and replace promote with demote, if you want to take your Sim down a few pegs. Once you’ve enabled cheats, you must type testingCheats true into the console and then use any of the relevant cheats below.

The Sims 4 full-time career promotion cheats

The interaction menu with an inheritance lawyer in The Sims 4

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If you want to earn a promotion in your full-time job, follow the codes below relevant to your chosen Sims 4 career path:

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  • careers.promote Activist
  • careers.promote Actor
  • careers.promote Astronaut
  • careers.promote Athletic
  • careers.promote Business
  • careers.promote careers_Adult_CivilDesigner
  • careers.promote Conservationist
  • careers.promote Criminal
  • careers.promote careers_Adult_Freelancer_Agency_Maker
  • careers.promote careers_adult_Critic
  • careers.promote Culinary
  • careers.promote Detective
  • careers.promote Doctor
  • careers.promote careers_Adult_Education
  • careers.promote careers_Adult_Engineer
  • careers.promote Entertainer
  • careers.promote Adult_Gardener
  • careers.promote careers_Adult_Law
  • careers.promote Military
  • careers.promote Painter
  • careers.promote adult_active_Scientist
  • careers.promote SecretAgent
  • careers.promote SocialMedia
  • careers.promote Influencer
  • careers.promote TechGuru
  • careers.promote adult_Writer

The Sims 4 part-time career promotion cheats

A woman levelling up skills in The Sims 4

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The Sims 4 career cheats don’t stop with your full-time careers though. If you’re holding down a part-time career and want to earn a little more, you can use the following cheats to win that easy promotion.

  • careers.promote PartTime_Babysitter
  • careers.promote PartTime_Barista
  • careers.promote PartTime_Diver
  • careers.promote career_Volunteer_E-Sports
  • careers.promote PartTime_FastFood
  • careers.promote PartTime_Fisherman
  • careers.promote PartTime_Lifeguard
  • careers.promote PartTime_Manual
  • careers.promote PartTime_Retail
  • careers.promote careers_Volunteer_SoccerTeam

And there’s a few more extra career cheats to try out below if you want to fiddle with the career choices of your Sims.

Additional The Sim 4 career cheats

In addition to all the cheats above, you can also quit your job, add a job, and even change your career outfit using the codes below:

  • careers.add_career {careername} - adds a career to your Sim
  • careers.remove_career {careername} - quit career
  • careers.retire {careername} - quit and receive a pension every week
  • Sims.modify_career_outfit_in_cas {SimID} - change career outfit in Create a Sim

It is important to note that some of the careers listed above exist only in some of the best Sims 4 expansion packs, such as The Sims 4: City Living or The Sims 4: Eco Lifestyle. So, they won’t work unless you have purchased and installed the expansion packs.

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