Sims 4 Career Cheats You NEED To Know

Since The Sims 4 is a life simulator you’re going to want your characters to have a career while you’re playing but getting promotions can take time. Thankfully, there are so many sims 4 career cheats that you can use to skip past the boring parts of careers and make more money.

When you pair these career cheats with skill cheats you can get your sims earning so much money, having a fun time and being able to raise their families with ease.

This page is currently updated up to The Sims 4: High School Years!

How to Enable Cheats

Before we get started with any of our cheat guides, we like to make sure you know how to properly open up the cheat dialogue box and use the cheat code that will allow all other cheats to work.

To open the cheat box, you need to hit ctrl + shift + c on your keyboard. Important Note: Mac users hit command not control! Once you see the white bar at the top which is the cheat dialogue box, type in testingcheats true which will allow all other cheats to start working and most won’t work if you don’t first use this cheat!

Promotion Sims 4 Career Cheats

There are so many careers in the game for you to play through and sometimes you just want to give your sim’s an easy promotion and these sims 4 career cheats are perfect for that.

These are super simple to use, just enable cheat codes then go ahead and type these into the cheat box and hit enter and you’ll instantly get a promotion without needing to gain the skills.

Career Name	Cheat Code
Acting	careers.promote Actor
Astronaut	careers.promote Astronaut
Athlete	careers.promote Athletic
Business	careers.promote Business
Civil Designer	Careers.Promote CivilDesigner
Conservationist	careers.promote Conservationist
Criminal	careers.promote Criminal
Critic	careers.promote careers_adult_Critic
Culinary	careers.promote Culinary
Detective	careers.promote Detective
Doctor	careers.promote Doctor
Education	Careers.Promote Education
Engineer	Careers.Promote Engineering
Entertainer	careers.promote Entertainer
Gardener	careers.promote Adult_Gardener
Interior Decorator	careers.promote deco
Law	Careers.Promote Law
Military	careers.promote Military
Painter	careers.promote Painter
Politician	careers.promote Activist
Salaryperson	Careers.Promote CorporateWorker
Scientist	careers.promote Scientist
Secret Agent	careers.promote SecretAgent
Social Media	careers.promote SocialMedia
Style Influencer	careers.promote Influencer
Tech Guru	careers.promote TechGuru
Writer	careers.promote Writer

Demotion Sims 4 Career Cheats

Of course not all gameplay is sunshine and rainbows, you may want to have your sims get lower in their career instead of getting promoted. These are the exact same cheat codes but instead of the word promote you swap it out with the word demote and it will work just the same way.

Career Name	Cheat Code
Acting	careers.demote Actor
Astronaut	careers.demote Astronaut
Athlete	careers.demote Athletic
Business	careers.demote Business
Civil Designer	Careers.demote CivilDesigner
Conservationist	careers.demote Conservationist
Criminal	careers.demote Criminal
Critic	careers.demote careers_adult_Critic
Culinary	careers.demote Culinary
Detective	careers.demote Detective
Doctor	careers.demote Doctor
Education	Careers.demote Education
Engineer	Careers.demote Engineering
Entertainer	careers.demote Entertainer
Gardener	careers.demote Adult_Gardener
Interior Decorator	careers.demote deco
Law	Careers.demote Law
Military	careers.demote Military
Painter	careers.demote Painter
Politician	careers.demote Activist
Salaryperson	Careers.demote CorporateWorker
Scientist	careers.demote Scientist
Secret Agent	careers.demote SecretAgent
Social Media	careers.demote SocialMedia
Style Influencer	careers.demote Influencer
Tech Guru	careers.demote TechGuru
Writer	careers.demote Writer

Part-Time Job Cheat Codes

If you want your sims to earn a good income but don’t feel like giving them a full-time career, you may choose to go with a part-time job instead. These are jobs where your sims are going to work a few hours a day instead of an eight to ten hour shift, allowing them to have more time for hobbies and family.

You can even have more than one part time job in The Sims 4 now which is so much fun and so chaotic. These cheat codes are going to let you promote your sim’s to the next level in these part-time jobs which will help you earn more money.

Part-Time Job	Cheat Code
Babysitter	careers.promote PartTime_Babysitter
Barista	careers.promote PartTime_Barista
Diver	careers.promote PartTime_Diver
Fast Food Employee	careers.promote PartTime_FastFood
Fisherman	careers.promote PartTime_Fisherman
Lifeguard	careers.promote PartTime_Lifeguard
Manual Laborer	careers.promote PartTime_Manual
Retail Employee	careers.promote PartTime_Retail
Video Game Streamer (Teens)	careers.promote teen_streamersidehustle
Video Game Streamer (Adult)	careers.promote parttime_streamersidehustle
Simfluencer (Teens)	careers.promote teen_simsfluencersidehustle
Simfluencer (Adult)	careers.promote parttime_simsfluencersidehustle

With these part-time jobs you can also go ahead and demote your sims to push them backwards in their career. This works with the exact same cheat codes but you just change the word promote to demote.

Part-Time Job	Cheat Code
Babysitter	careers.demote PartTime_Babysitter
Barista	careers.demote PartTime_Barista
Diver	careers.demote PartTime_Diver
Fast Food Employee	careers.demote PartTime_FastFood
Fisherman	careers.demote PartTime_Fisherman
Lifeguard	careers.demote PartTime_Lifeguard
Manual Laborer	careers.demote PartTime_Manual
Retail Employee	careers.demote PartTime_Retail
Video Game Streamer (Teens)	careers.demote teen_streamersidehustle
Video Game Streamer (Adult)	careers.demote parttime_streamersidehustle
Simfluencer (Teens)	careers.demote teen_simsfluencersidehustle
Simfluencer (Adult)	careers.demote parttime_simsfluencersidehustle

School Related Sims 4 Career Cheats

There are two age groups who are going to be spending all of their time in school instead of getting a job, and you can cheat their experiences in grade school and high school as well. You can use these promotion and demotion cheats for both children and teenagers.

Cheat	Cheat Code
Promote in Grade School	careers.promote gradeschool
Promote in High School	careers.promote highschool
Demote in Grade School	careers.demote gradeschool
Demote in High School	careers.demote highschool

After School Activity Cheats

After School Activity Type	Cheat Code
Scouts (Seasons)	careers.promote_scout
Drama Club (Seasons)	careers.promote dramaclub
E-Sports Competitor (Discover University)	careers.promote career_Volunteer_E-Sports
Soccer Team Player (Discover University)	careers.promote careers_Volunteer_SoccerTeam
Cheer Team (High School Years)	careers.promote hsteam_cheerteam
Chess Team (High School Years)	careers.promote hsteam_chessteam
Computer Team (High School Years)	careers.promote hsteam_computerteam
Football Team (High School Years)	careers.promote hsteam_footballteam

How to Unlock Career Reward Objects

There are a number of items in game that you have to get to a certain level of a career to be able to unlock, thankfully, there is a way for you to unlock the career reward objects in The Sims 4!

All you need to do is hit ctrl + shift + c on your keyboard and type in testingcheats true into the cheat dialogue box that pops up at the top of the screen.

Then you may need to use the buy debug cheat as well just to ensure that these items appear, so I always just do it anyway. Type bb.showhiddenobjects into the cheat box. Then type bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement to unlock all of the career reward objects!

Final Thoughts on Sims 4 Career Cheats

There are so many incredible cheat codes for you to play with in the game and these sims 4 career cheats are going to be so useful. Career cheats are amazing because it can truly give yourself a head start and get you through parts of careers that are super boring. Use these to earn more money, get better rewards and just have more fun. Happy Playing!