23 Side Hustles To Help You Ditch Careers [Early Expansions] | The Sims 4 Guide

4000+ game hours and I'm still learning from Pete.

Yes but nothing is as iconic as hunting and breeding frogs...

Another side hustle that was not mentioned, there are vendor stalls that you can purchase in both the Jungle Adventure and City Living Packs. You can open up yard sales with them on any lot, and sell whatever you want. On my PS4 copy of the game, not only do I have these two packs, but also the Realm of Magic Pack. So I’ve been using the vendor stalls to sell my potions along with woodcrafts that I made with the Woodworking Table (which is a base game item) and produce from my garden. True, it is slower than just selling them in bulk, but it I think it’s kind of fun seeing my Sim working on her stall, selling handmade goods or homegrown crops from her fruits and vegetable garden!

I would note that with level 9 of the archeology skill, your sim will be randomly sent artifacts in the mail and if you authenticate them and mail them back, you get 3-4k every time.

Collecting autographs is my favorite side hustle. It takes the least amount of work, and sometimes you can make $3,000 a day. Yoga/meditation is my second.

Extremely Useful! I hate regular careers with a passion! Don't want to be reminded of work when I am playing my game. These side hustles can actually be main hustles! Thanks!

You and I literally had an entire back-and-forth conversation about poop today. I was responding out loud to your video and my kids came in asking who was here. Another Side hustle I love to do for my outgoing party animal/ aspiration sims is to be a party hose. I have them host parties where the award object sells for more than the cost of the party so they are basically paid professional party hosts.

Just starting a spellcaster legacy run, trying to do a long line of rich haughty spellcasters, and I was really hating the fact they need jobs at first. Much love Pete!

I had NO idea that autographs could be appraised and could be worth so much! I can't believe I'm still learning new things even after all these years of playing. This is why I love your channel. My sim is about to become a groupie, lol.

Oop biologist here👋🏽 With the bees it’s not termites, it’s mites which even in real life are one of the main reason causing a decline in some species of bees :))

As far as the flower arranging skill goes, you can also scent arrangements with Bluebells so they last forever and even sell them in a store or on a sales table for a markup. If you have My Wedding Stories, you can also make bouquets which can be sold as well.

I love playing archaeologists. If you want a sim who doesn't have a real job but has tons of money, that's the best gig.

being an archaeologist made my sim the most money, it's a fun job to play too. my sim sells the artifacts using a vendor stall and you can choose to mark up the prices to 300% but these days my sim just get artifacts mailed to her home, she authenticates them and makes 3-4k per artifact authenticated.

As of the My Wedding Stories expansion pack, the flower arranging skill is now available in the base game with the bonsai tree.

Thank you !! I have a teen that lives alone and i don't want her to work

Flower arrangement is really OP tbh. When you unlock the pink orchid arrangement, you will spend 9++ simoleons to make it, and sell it for almost 9,000 simoleons, or almost 19,000 simoleons to sell it on plopsy, no matter if the flower gone bad or not. Its crazy

I warmly recommend trying these! My sims very rarely work normal jobs, and then usually for a while to fulfill an aspiration. Hobbies and side hustles are so much more fun. It was the same way in Sims 3.

I love that you mentioned Sulani. I love sending sims out there on vacation so they find treasures. My other fav money makers are Jungle Adventure relic hunting and selling flower arrangements on ploppsy. 😁

Petey, thank you so much for this video! I struggle to choose a career, and these tips are great! There's so much I haven't explored, and these inspire me to try new things. You're awesome, and I love all your videos! I'm such a fan. Hope you have a great day!!

Best side hustle I've found involves a Spellcaster with Copypasto and the Gold Perereca frogs from Jungle Adventure. Each frog is worth about 8000-10,000 each. The Jeweled Gold Perereca sells for 10,015. Copy that thing 60+ times and you've got enough money in a Sim-afternoon to complete both Wealth Aspirations. It's vital you have as many Spellcaster perks as you can get that lower Charge accumulation for Practical or all Magic in general so you can make lots of copies at once, and Discharge so you can do it all over again, without blowing yourself up. If you also have a good stock of Potion of Plentiful Needs, you shouldn't need any food, sleep, etc.