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Tech Guru is one of the eight basic career tracks introduced in The Sims 4. It has two branches: eSport Gamer and Start Up Entrepreneur
Ideal Emotion: Focused
Daily Tasks: Play Video Games/Practice Programming
Game 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.
Position Levels
| Tech Guru Career Levels | ||||
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| 1) Live Chat Support Agent | ||||
| Welcome to Babysitting 101! <sim name> will be using his/her above-average intelligence for hours of gentle guidance and virtual handholding, exploring brave new limits on just how thinly one can veil sarcasm. | §31/hour | No Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 10:00 - 18:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| None | ||||
| Perks: None | ||||
| 2) Quality Assurance | ||||
| <sim 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?? | §38/hour | §375 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 10:00 - 19:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 2 | ||||
| Perks: Stainless Steel Auto-Pot | ||||
| 3) Code Monkey | ||||
| Congrats to <sim name>! Now, instead of risking life, limb and job pointing out the gaping holes in someone else's code, he/she gets to put all semblance of a life aside to program code based on someone else's deadlines. At least there's a benefits package! | §47/hour | §506 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 10:00 - 19:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 3 | ||||
| Make a plugin on the computer | ||||
| Perks: Computer Hard Drives | ||||
| 4) Ace Engineer | ||||
| Wielding a rare combination of technical and political skills, <sim name> is carving his/her 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 name> does is totally mind-numbing. | §63/hour | §633 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 09:00 - 17:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 4 | ||||
| Mod 2 games | ||||
| Perks: The Sentinel | ||||
| 5) Project Manager | ||||
| <sim name> has finally achieved the glory of middle management! He/she gets to drive the schedule, squeeze hundreds of programming hours out of each week, work magic with budgets and play the ice queen everyone else gets to whine about. | §73/hour | §760 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 09:00 - 17:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 5 | ||||
| Make 3 plugins on the computer | ||||
| Perks: The Hipster Hugger | ||||
| 6) Development Captain | ||||
| <sim name> got real power now. He/she doesn't just manage measly one-off projects, he/she is in charge of the development process for several groundbreaking products. Aye, aye, this is going to be fun! | §85/hour | §874 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 09:00 - 17:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 6 | ||||
| Complete 2 freelance jobs | ||||
| Perks: Innovators Award for Excellence | ||||
After being promoted from Development Captain, Sims will be able to choose one of the two career paths, eSport Gamer or Start Up Entrepreneur branch.
ESports Gamer Branch
| Tech Guru Career Levels - ESports Gamer Branch | ||||
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| 7) ESports Competitor | ||||
| You've been living and breathing videogames since the moment you could twitch your trigger finger, and as an eSports Gamer, you can cash in on that. | §121/hour | §933 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 14:00 - 23:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Video Gaming: 3 | ||||
| Place in a video game tournament | ||||
| Perks: Stack of CD's | ||||
| 8) Pro Gamer | ||||
| Fantasy, meet reality. <sim name> is actually making a living playing games competitively. Sure, he/she isn'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! | §194/hour | §2177 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 14:00 - 00:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Video Gaming: 6 | ||||
| Place in 3 video game tournaments | ||||
| Perks: "Revanne" Poster, Brag about Skillz interaction | ||||
| 9) APM Queen/King | ||||
| With practice comes speed, and <sim name>'s real-time strategy skills are living proof. With APM climbing past the 400 mark, <sim 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. | §261/hour | §2721 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 16:00 - 22:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Video Gaming: 9 | ||||
| Have 30,000 fans from livestreaming | ||||
| Perks: Top Secret Computer | ||||
| 10) Champion Gamer | ||||
| WOOT! <sim name> is now rolling in dough, and he/she doesn’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 his/her practice sessions, and the tournament prizes are nothing to sneeze at. This is the dream of gamers everywhere! | §356/hour | §3129 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 16:00 - 22:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| None | ||||
| Perks: PriorPerfection Motion Sensor Game Mat | ||||
Start Up Entrepreneur Branch
| Tech Guru Career Levels - Start Up Entrepreneur Branch | ||||
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| 7) The Next Big Thing | ||||
| Turn your Big Ideas into household names as a Start-up Genius. It’ll take savvy and connections, but fortune is within your reach. | §98/hour | §933 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 10:00 - 17:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 8 | ||||
| Charisma: 2 | ||||
| Perks: A Stroke of Genius | ||||
| 8) Independent Consultant | ||||
| <sim name> is making a name for himself/herself in the tech world, but the cash from selling of his/her first company is already getting thin. Instead of bowing to someone else’s vision, he/she decides to earn money as a consultant for private investors. | §185/hour | § 2394 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 10:00 - 16:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 9 | ||||
| Earned §2,000 from mobile apps | ||||
| Perks: Minimalist Unplant | ||||
| 9) Dot-Com Pioneer | ||||
| With an impressive track record for successfully launching companies, <sim 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! | §371/hour | §3,112 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | Pension unknown | |||
| Hours: 10:00 - 16:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| Programming: 10 | ||||
| Make §2,000 from games | ||||
| Perks: Light of My Life Painting | ||||
| 10) Start Up Genius | ||||
| Whiz kid. Wonder. Visionary. <sim name> has been called them all, and he/she is confident he/she deserves it. Everything he/she touches turns to gold. Doors open when he/she so much as glances at them. And technologies only emerge with his/her permission. | §516/hour | §5,335 Bonus | ||
| S M T W T F S | §729 | |||
| Hours: 10:00 - 15:00
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| Performance Factors | ||||
| None | ||||
| Perks: Plasmatron 3000 Flatscreen TV, Brag About Startup Interaction | ||||
Premade Tech Gurus
- Travis Scott, Quality Assurance
- J Huntington III, Quality Assurance
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