The Politician Career offers the option of becoming an elected representative or branching out to raise money for charity
City Living lets you play politics, Sims-style. You can elect to go all-in as a Politician and become President (National Leader), or switch to the Charity Organizer career track and pursue a number of causes. This career starts with 4 levels, after which you pick one of the two branches. Before diving in to the career levels themselves, let's look at some of the features of the base Politician career. The ideal mood for this Career is Confident. You can get confident by psyching your Sim up using a mirror. It's also possible to do speeches and other things. See the linked confidence guide to learn more.
How to: Politician Career Cheats
Press Control + Shift + C then type testingcheats on and press enter. You can now get promotions with careers.promote activist - you can also see all Career Cheats or visit a full list of Cheats in The Sims 4.
This applies to both branches of this career, along with the other two included in the City Living Expansion Pack. Each day before work, you will see a popup in the lower left corner. Selecting this, you can choose to have your Sim work from home. You'll get a couple of tasks that must be completed in order to secure your pay and career performance. Aside from the tasks you're given, you have total control and can use the time to skill up or else work on career promotion requirements.
At level 4, you can begin to use the podium to give expert speeches which can make your Sim confident. Podiums are portable items, so buy one at home and drag it to your Sim's inventory or click it to 'put in inventory'. Once on a public lot, you can click the podium in your Sim's inventory to place it on the ground then use it to give a speech. This is primarily useful for gathering Sims, the speech itself will raise your Charisma skill. Being confident, you can then talk to Sims who form up to listen and promote your cause or secure their vote.
As noted, get confident before work if you want your Sim to have a boost in performance. Also use 'work hard' by clicking on your Sim's portrait while they're at work.
Your Sim can pick from one of five causes, which can be switched at any time. Pick a cause by clicking on your Sim and going into the Political Career sub-menu. Successfully convincing Sims is required as a daily task for the first four levels of the career. Once you've picked a cause, you can click the ground to begin a protest for that cause, and also talk to Sims about it. Check the support for your cause by using a computer. If you go with the Politics career path at level 5, you'll lose these abilities.
| Rank | Job | Wages | Schedule | $/Day | Daily Task & Promotion Requirements | Reward for Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unruly Activist | $16/hour | Sun-Mon, Wed-Thu, Sat 8AM-3PM | $112 | Successfully Promote Cause (After Picking a Cause) | None |
| 2 | Campaign Intern | $26/hour | Sun-Mon, Wed-Thu, Sat 8AM-3PM | $182 | Level 2 Charisma, Successfully Promote Cause | $172, Debate Politics Social Interaction |
| 3 | Social Justice Worker | $39/hour | Sun-Mon, Wed-Thu, Sat 8AM-3PM | $273 | Level 3 Charisma, Promote Cause | $275, Check Cause Progress Interaction on Computer, New Clothes |
| 4 | Community Organizer | $49/hour | Sun-Mon, Wed-Thu, Sat 8AM-3PM | $343 | Level 4 Charisma, Successfully Promote Cause | $413, Give Expert Speech Interaction at Podium |
Becoming National Leader will require you to secure Sims' votes
This assumes you continue as a politician, you can look at activist below. The next phase of the Career retains the ideal mood of Confident, while changing up the requirements for daily tasks. Instead of getting support for causes, you'll be securing votes. The necessary interactions are found under the Friendly > Politics Career menu. From there, you can pick 'Secure Vote' along with Debate from the Left/Right, and other interactions that you unlock. All of these are boosted by confidence and higher levels of Charisma. Use 'Secure Vote' once you've built a good rapport with them and inched the friendship bar upward a bit. You can certainly choose to make empty promises, though the interaction can fail. The Promote Policies interaction is powerful, and not only builds relationship between your politician and the voter, it also increases the success rate when asking for their vote. It is important to note that Secure Vote has a cooldown, so only use it after you've given yourself a better shot by being friendly with the voter and using promote policies beforehand.
Giving speeches are not a major part of the career, but as noted above you can get some Sims to gather around, level your Charisma, and get a confident moodlet to help your Sim interact with any listeners after the speech. This can help you secure votes, but the process itself is hit and miss. Sometimes few Sims will stop and listen, it is far worse than playing guitar. Sims just don't seem interested. Perhaps this will be patched.
| Rank | Job | Wages | Schedule | $/Day | Daily Task & Promotion Requirements | Reward for Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Civil Servant | $65/hour | Mon-Fri 8AM-4PM | $520 | Reach Level 5 Charisma, Secure 2 Votes | $518, Promote Policies Social Interaction, Secure Vote Interaction, Make Empty Promises Interaction, Ask for Small/Large Bribe Ability |
| 6 | Public Official | $91/hour | 8AM-4PM Mon-Fri | $728 | Level 6 Charisma, Secure 3 Votes | $1,555, New Create-a-Sim Clothes |
| 7 | Councilperson | $127/hour | Mon-Fri 8AM-4PM | $1,016 | Level 7 Charisma, Secure 5 Votes | $2,177, The Squared Office Unlocks in Build Mode, Kiss Baby Social Interaction |
| 8 | Representative | $178/hour | Mon-Fri 8AM-4PM | $1,424 | Level 8 Charisma, Secure 10 Votes | $3,049 |
| 9 | Elder Statesperson | $231/hour | 8AM-4PM Mon-Fri | $1,848 | Max Charisma, Secure 20 Votes | $4,268, New CAS Clothes |
| 10 | National Leader | $340/hour | Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri 8AM-3PM | $2380 | None | $5,548, Stately Chic Pre-Built Room Unlocks |
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Fundraising is the main goal of the charity organizer
Again, the ideal mood of confident is retained. The Charity Organizer branch makes about 10% less money than the Politician, but features less required hours per week. While the amount of money you need to raise increases steeply with each level, it's easier due to the new interactions that unlock when compared to the politician's need to secure more votes. Sims will be more likely to donate money if you've attained their support and been friendly before asking for a donation. The 'easier' part comes into play because you can make a bit extra in donations simply by requesting the smaller amounts before the big ones as you level up (or in reverse), while the politician gets but one vote per Sim. In total you can raise $1,375 from a single Sim if they are feeling generous that day.
| Rank | Job | Wages | Schedule | $/Day | Daily Task & Promotion Requirements | Reward for Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Friendly Lobbyist | $57/hour | Mon-Tue, Thu-Fri 9AM-5PM | $456 | Reach Level 5 Charisma, Collect $50 in Donations | $518, Collect Donation ($25), Convince Protesters to Leave Interaction |
| 6 | Fundraising Specialist | $98/hour | Mon, Thu, Fri 9AM-5PM | $784 | Level 6 Charisma, Collect $500 in Donations. Collect Donations | $449, Every Little Thing Counts (Pre-Built Room), Collect Donations ($100) Interaction |
| 7 | Charity Organizer | $123/hour | Fri-Sun 11AM-7PM | $984 | Level 7 Charisma, Collect $1500 in Donations | $471, Collect Donation ($250_ Interaction, New CAS Clothes |
| 8 | Non-Profit Director | $153/hour | Mon, Wed, Fri 9AM-5PM | $1,224 | Level 8 Charisma, Collect $5,000 in Donations | $589, Collect Donation ($1,000) Interaction |
| 9 | Leader of the Cause | $219/hour | Mon, Wed, Fri 10AM-5PM | $1,533 | Max Charisma, Collect $20,000 in Donations | $736, New CAS Clothes |
| 10 | Charity Icon | $342/hour | Mon, Wed, Fri 10AM-4PM | $2,052 | Collect Donations | $920, Making a Difference (Pre-Built Room) |
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Comments (25)
Thanks,
Taylor
So basically, all these interactions are under 'friendly>political' talking interactions.
I went under the Friendly interactions on another sim, then to political, and it only gives me options to debate politics or promote cause.
Make sure you have chatted to the sim before asking for a donation and start with the small amounts first. This interaction doesn't always show immediately and so chatting about how they are etc first is often necessary.
Or, were you meaning the debating left or right politics? I had my sim use both with different sims all the time. If the sim you are debating with matches your sims debate (left or right) then getting donations becomes easier with that sim. It's a game of chance really. Again, it doesn't matter which your sim chooses for any conversation as you have no way of knowing if the other sim will agree.
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Hi. I have the same problem and I'm even trying Playalot's solution. How much do I have to keep spamming 7 funny interactions over and over and over again before it shows up?!
Why can't I for the life of me find "Discuss Neighborhood Changes"? The sim I'm trying to discuss with LITERALLY lives in the same neighborhood, but I still can't find it! Help me please!
Sometimes you need to cycle through a few of the other friendly socials for it to show up. You will also need to be in your home neighborhood.
You never suggest using the mixology confidence and inspiration potions. Do you not use those?
There are literally too many methods of getting Confident to list Ways to Get Confident. After some years we decided against continuing to list every method as let players explore for themselves. Depending on what pack a player has different methods for emotions will be available to them.
Does anyone know why it wont let me keep promoting my sim ive checked the spelling and turned cheats on and off again but it will only let me do it once
No sorry I don't. The promotions cheat is working as expected in my game. maybe you have outdated mods? The cheat does need entering each time but you should be able to enter the cheat one after the other until your Sim is promoted to whatever higher level you choose.