The tech guru career is one of the career tracks from The Sims 4 base game. After being promoted from level six, Sims will be able to choose one of the two career paths: esport gamer or start-up entrepreneur.
 Tech Guru Career Levels
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| Description: "Who needs college with programming skills like yours? Opportunity is out there, ripe for the picking, and you and your big brain are ready to pluck away." | ||
| Workplace: Rainy Day Entertainment | ||
| 1) Live Chat Support Agent | ||
| Welcome to Babysitting 101! <sim first name> will be using their above-average intelligence for hours of gentle guidance and virtual handholding, exploring brave new limits on just how thinly one can veil sarcasm. | Wage: §31/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: None |
Daily Task: Play Video Games | |
| Bonus: None | Pension: Unknown | |
| 2) Quality Assurance | ||
| <sim first name> has entered the exciting world of QA, the unsung heroes of software development. It’s the perfect job for people who feel like they break everything they touch! But hey, better they break it than the customer, right? Right?? | Wage: §38/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 2 Programming Skill |
Daily Task: Play Video Games | |
| Bonus: §375; Stainless Steel Auto-Pot | Pension: Unknown | |
| 3) Code Monkey | ||
| Congrats to <sim first name>! Now, instead of risking life, limb, and job pointing out the gaping holes in someone else’s code, they get to put all semblance of a life aside to program code based on someone else’s deadlines. At least there’s a benefits package! | Wage: §47/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 3 Programming Skill Achieve Level 2 Video Gaming Skill |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §506; Computer Hard Drive | Pension: Unknown | |
| 4) Ace Engineer | ||
| Wielding a rare combination of technical and political skills, <sim first name> is carving their way up the ranks at last! While innovative work is still a faint glimmer on the horizon, it’s finally in view, and not everything <sim first name> does is totally mind-numbing. | Wage: §63/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 4 Programming Skill Achieve Level 3 Video Gaming Skill |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §633; The Sentinel | Pension: Unknown | |
| 5) Project Manager | ||
| <sim first name> has finally achieved the glory of middle management! They get to drive the schedule, squeeze hundreds of programming hours out of each week, work magic with budgets and play the jerk/ice queen everyone else gets to whine about. | Wage: §73/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 5 Programming Skill Achieve Level 4 Video Gaming Skill |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §760; The Hipster Hugger | Pension: Unknown | |
| 6) Development Captain | ||
| <sim first name>’s got real power now. They don’t just manage measly one-off projects, no, their in charge of the development process for several groundbreaking products. Aye, aye, this is going to be fun! | Wage: §78/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 6 Programming Skill Achieve Level 5 Video Gaming Skill |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §874; Innovator's Award for Excellence in Science | Pension: Unknown | |
 Tech Guru Career Levels - eSport Gamer Branch
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| Description: "You’ve been living and breathing videogames since the moment you could twitch your trigger finger, and as an eSport Gamer, you can cash in on that." | ||
| Workplace: Rainy Day Entertainment | ||
| 7) eSports Competitor | ||
| As an amateur cyberathlete, <sim first name>’s world is about to change. After a lifetime of training within the dimly lit confines of bedrooms and basements, <sim first name> is ready to travel the world and go head-to-head in dimly lit indoor stadiums. Their time is now. | Wage: §121/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 6 Programming Skill Achieve Level 6 Video Gaming Skill |
Daily Task: Play Video Games | |
| Bonus: §933; Stack of CDs | Pension: Unknown | |
| 8) Pro Gamer | ||
| Fantasy, meet reality. <sim first name> is actually making a living playing games competitively. Sure, they aren’t exactly pulling in six figures yet, but the bounty’s getting bigger, and the sponsors are taking note. Time to invest in media training! | Wage: §194/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 5:00 PM - 12:00 AM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 7 Programming Skill Achieve Level 8 Video Gaming Skill |
Daily Task: Play Video Games | |
| Bonus: §2,177; "Revanne" Poster; Brag about Skillz interaction | Pension: Unknown | |
| 9) APM King/Queen | ||
| With practice comes speed, and <sim first name>’s real-time strategy skills are living proof. With APM climbing past the 400 mark, <sim first name> has been known to assemble an army, equip it, construct an impenetrable base and annihilate at least one other race in the time it takes most people to tie their shoes. | Wage: §261/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 8 Programming Skill Max Video Gaming Skill to Level 10 |
Daily Task: Play Video Games | |
| Bonus: §2,721; Top Secret Computer | Pension: Unknown | |
| 10) Champion Gamer | ||
| WOOT! <sim first name> is now rolling in dough, and they don’t have too many complaints about being famous either. Sponsors are picking up tabs left and right, there are Simoleons to be made by streaming their practice sessions, and the tournament prizes are nothing to sneeze at. This is the dream of gamers everywhere! | Wage: §328/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 4:00 PM - 10:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: None |
Daily Task: Play Video Games | |
| Bonus: §3,129; PrioPerfection Motion Sensor Game Mat; unlocks "The Game Room" styled room | Pension: §740/day | |
 Tech Guru Career Levels - Start-up Entrepreneur Branch
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| Description: "Turn your Big Ideas into household names as a Start-up Genius. It'll take savvy and connections, but fortune is within your reach." | ||
| Workplace: Rainy Day Entertainment | ||
| 7) The Next Big Thing? | ||
| At last, <sim first name> has ditched big company bureaucracy to launch their very own company, founded on their very own ideals, to build their very own innovative solution. The only hitch? Their very own money is not quite enough to get this thing off the ground. | Wage: §98/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 8 Programming Skill Reach Level 2 Charisma Skill |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §933; A Stroke of Genius | Pension: §298/Day | |
| 8) Independent Consultant | ||
| <sim first name> is making a name for themselves in the tech world, but the cash from selling off their first company is already getting thin. Instead of bowing to someone else’s vision, they decide to earn money as a consultant for private investors. | Wage: §185/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 9 Programming Skill Reach Level 4 Charisma Skill |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §2,394; Minimalist Unplant | Pension: Unknown | |
| 9) Dot-Com Pioneer | ||
| With an impressive track record for successfully launching companies, <sim first name> is always on the go and never off the grid, making split-second decisions by text on everything from development to creative to UI. Remarkably, people listen! | Wage: §371/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Max Programming Skill to Level 10 Reach Level 6 Charisma Skill |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §3,112; Light of My Life Painting | Pension: Unknown | |
| 10) Start-up Genius | ||
| Whiz kid. Wonder. Visionary. <sim first name> has been called them all, and their confident they deserve it. Everything they touch turns to gold. Doors open when they so much as glances at them. And technologies only emerge with their permission. | Wage: §516/hour | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM | ||
| Ideal Mood: Focused | ||
| Promotion Tasks: None |
Daily Task: Programming | |
| Bonus: §5,335; Plasmatron 3000 Flat Screen TV; Brag about Startup interaction; unlocks "The HQ" styled room | Pension: Unknown | |
Sims in the tech guru career[]
- Travis Scott - Quality Assurance
- J Huntington III - Quality Assurance
- Sergio Romeo - Quality Assurance
- Akira Kibo - Live Chat Support Agent
- Arun Bheeda - Quality Assurance
- Dirk Dreamer - Development Captain
- Grace Anansi - Live Chat Support Agent
- Nova Curious - Ace Engineer
- Lewis Sancho - Ace Engineer
- Celeste Michaelson - Start-up Genius
- Christopher Michaelson - Dot-Com Pioneer
- Kasem Bun Ma - Independent Consultant
- Nancy Brock - Live Chat Support Agent
- Teruna Zaki - Pro Gamer
- Collin Robertson - Dot-Com Pioneer
External links[]
- Tech Guru - The Sims 4 Wiki - VG101.Wiki at the Wayback Machine (archived April 13, 2016)
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