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!
It didnt work
be more specific??? What didn’t work? Which one?
The scientist career cheat did not work…I need your help pls. Thanks
just copy and paste it. ctrl+c to copy, ctrl+v to paste
It worked for me.
Fast food one does t work
The fast food one does work try it again
Labor one didnt work try several different times but the bumping out of high school worked.
It worked
My writer career did not promote me
R u guys doing a space between promote n the career?
try careers.promote adult_writer
To do the writer one type careers.promote Adult_Writer
How do I use the “Career picker debug”. I turned on testingcheats true and I right clicked and selected a career and it still says that the sim has no career.
the part time retail promote didn’t work for me
The scientist one didn’t work
Thank you so much!!!!
careers.promote highschool won’t work for me
Hi! Right click your sim and click Cheat Sim Info and then carrers promote highschool!
shift right click your sim I mean
still didnt work for me, it wont pop up nor will it let me hop in the cheats tab to enter it. after i try to type it in, the Sim Info options dissappere
DOES ANYONE HAVE IDEA OF HOW CAN I GET RIDD OF THIS STINKING DUSTY BUNNY ? DRIVES ME CRAXY , I SWEAR !!
Vacuum it.
Go to game settings and turn it off
Hi, can you go to work for other jobs? Not only for doctor, detective and scientist? Thank you
Can you go to work for other jobs? Not only for doctors, detective, scientist and interior designer? How?
unfortunately not
All but the scout promotion works for me. testing is enabled and every other cheat works, but promote scout does not work for child or teen as of cottage living
The scientist career cheat does not work
Hi. Sims cannot retire. Even sim that did successfully retire 6-7 months IRL ago are no longer listed as retired and no longer gets retirement pay. Tried career.retire acting, then actor. So any suggestions please? I’m on Xbox and again retirement did work, but now elder sims do NOT have option on phone or computer to retire. They must just quit with no pension. Thanks
for the scientist promotion use “careers.promote adult_active_scientist” instead if it is not working