INFO

The Sims 4 won't allow sims to change their career branch once they have chosen one. Once my professional gamer sim got tired of playing games and wanted to start up her own tech business, she insisted that I do something about this. So, not wanting to disappoint her, I poked around in the game to find out why changing the career branch isn't allowed even with testing and debug cheats. Because that's what I do -- and do my sims even appreciate all that work?!? Of course not! I have yet to have a single sim thank me, and they continue to take a break from entertaining me to do absolutely stupid things like....

I digress... my apologies...

This mod works by carefully making a sim quit their career (for a few milliseconds), erasing their progress in their current career branch, promoting them to the top level of the original career and then promoting them AGAIN so that they can select a new career branch.

Simple.

Okay, maybe not simple. But at least I made it simple to use! The full version adds a "Change Career Branch" menu item straight onto the sims' phones, so even a stupid sim can now change their career branch.

The choice will only show up on a sim's phone if they have a career that can actually be quit. If they haven't progressed far enough to be on a career branch, they'll spend a few minutes on the phone only to be yelled at by the boss saying they can't change their career. I mean, you can understand the boss's anger at being asked to allow them to change from being a journalist to an author when the sim isn't even a journalist to begin with!

If all is well, the sim will be fired, docked a month's pay, and promoted back to the point that they can choose a new career. (No, they don't really get docked any pay!)

For the braver soul (or those running an old version of the game), there is also a cheat command version that adds a sims.change_career_branch command to the cheat console. This isn't available with the normal version, but you can always install both versions of the mod - it won't hurt anything. The end result is the same whichever version you use.

-Scumbumbo

INSTALL

This functionality is included in MCCC by Deaderpool.

To download MCCC click the Download link at the top of this page.

EXTRA

Additional Credits:

• Velocitygrass for the Sims4XmlExtractor

• Kuree and all the others at Sims4Group who have put together the S4PE tool

• Translations:

  • Chinese translation submitted by egureh

  • German translation submitted by Blackberryzh

  • Brazilian Portuguese submitted by An_dz

• Tokenbondboy for reporting the career branch level bug