The Sims 4 Career Cheats

Getting Promotions and Unlocking Career Items

Cheating your Career in The Sims 4 may help you to avoid the repetition of going through the same career track again and again. It's also possible to unlock items in buy mode that are restricted to Sims who have achieved a particular career level. Here's a guide to cheating every career in The Sims 4:

Getting Started: Open the Console

Press Control + Shift + C on your keyboard to open the comamnd line - type testingcheats on to ensure any cheat that you use will work (some require this). After you hit enter, this can be closed pressing control shift C again or hitting Esc when it is in focus.

Unlock Buy Mode Objects

bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement (Ignore Gameplay Unlocks Entitlement all run together) will take the requirements off build/buy items such as high-end easels, computers, and career-specific furniture that cannot be purchased without having a high level in a career. These items are typically given free when a Sim is promoted in a given career (found in the family inventory) but can be purchased (usually for a premium price).

Career Cheats

Type careers.promote x replacing x with the career of your choice. You can also hit up on the keyboard after you hit enter, and re-enter it a second time quickly. This is how you can go up multiple levels without re-typing it.

careers.promote actor Actor/Actress Career (Get Famous Expansion)
careers.promote astronaut Astronaut Career
careers.promote athletic Athlete Career
careers.promote business Business Career
careers.promote civildesigner - Civil Designer Career (Eco Lifestyle)
careers.promote conservationist Conservationist Career (Island Living Expansion)
careers.promote criminal Criminal Career
careers.promote adult_critic Critic Career (City Living Expansion)
careers.promote culinary Culinary Career
careers.promote detective Detective Career (Get to Work Expansion)
careers.promote doctor Doctor Career (Get to Work Expansion)
careers.promote education Education Career (Discover University)
careers.promote engineer Engineering Career (Discover University)
careers.promote entertainer Entertainer Career
careers.promote adult_freelancer_artist try also adult_freelancer_agency_artist (this one doesn't work for me, the first does) Freelance Artist
careers.promote adult_freelancer_agency_maker - Freelance Maker (Eco Lifestyle)
careers.promote adult_freelancer_agency_programmer Freelance Programmer
careers.promote adult_freelancer_agency_writer Freelance Writer
careers.promote adult_gardener Gardener Career (Seasons Expansion)
careers.promote law Law Career (Discover University)
careers.promote military Military Career Strangerville Game Pack
careers.promote painter Painter Career
careers.promote activist Politics Career (City Living Expansion)
careers.promote corporateworker Salaryperson Career (Snowy Escape
careers.promote adult_active_scientist Scientist Career** (Get to Work Expansion)
careers.promote scout Scout (Children/Teens) (Seasons Expansion)
careers.promote secretagent Secret Agent Career
careers.promote socialmedia Social Media Career (City Living Expansion)
careers.promote styleinfluencer Style Influencer Career (from free patch in November 2018)
careers.promote techguru Tech Guru Career
careers.promote adult_writer Writer Career

**May be just careers.promote scientist without StrangerVille

School Cheats

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Younger Sims' schooling counts as a career for the purposes of cheating. Raise a Sim's grades with careers.promote gradeschool or careers.promote highschool. You can lower them as well with careers.demote gradeschool/highschool. If you have the Seasons Expansion, you can promote your child in the Scouting career as well, with careers.promote_scout. Players with Get Famous may try careers.promote dramaclub to raise their little one's rank in the new Drama Club feature.

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Stephen Palcicsays...

Retire cheat no longer works in sims 4

10th November 2019 11:17am

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SHsays...

Thank you :)

14th February 2020 12:23am

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Msays...

So...what about part time jobs because you can use cheats to promote sims in those as well??

5th September 2020 6:57pm

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Maddie Delvecchiosays...

You're so awesome, I speak for all the people of the sims community that gets stuck on careers or can't figure something out, we wanna say ty so much and you friggin rock!! Keep up the amazing work!

18th July 2021 12:25am

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