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

A guide revealing 23 different side hustles to make use of from early expansion packs in The Sims 4. These can help you get away from a career and live a more flexible lifestyle. This includes hobbies that can see sims make loads of money, such as Flower Arranging and Bug Collecting, as well as smaller side activities like Managing A Lifestyle Brand, which can help you earn just a little bit of extra money or simoleons in the game. Please like and comment, and Subscribe here: bit.ly/2ZM0L4h
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:17 Beekeeping
1:03 Flower Arranging
1:25 Being A DJ
1:57 Transforming Objects
2:36 Cloning Objects
2:59 Exploring Sixam
3:37 Singing
4:02 Collecting Posters
4:32 Pet Breeding
5:10 Golden Poop
5:57 Island Treasure Hunting
6:39 Odd Jobs
7:01 Producing Music
7:30 Autograph Collecting
8:00 Online Vlogging
8:20 Managing A Lifestyle Brand
8:50 Bug Collecting
9:04 Yoga And Meditation Instructing
10:00 Being A Masseur
10:39 Pipe Organist
11:01 Crafting Garlic Objects
11:36 Being An Archaeologist
12:16 Blackmailing
12:59 Outro

[@FriscoKittens]

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

[@Decomposing_Virgins]

300+ hours for me and I still have so much to learn lol

[@Allergic_Rhino]

omg I knooow. It's crazy just how much stuff (and different ways to play) is all included in the Sims

[@ousoonthebeat6927]

3000+ And I haven’t really scratched the surface of the sims 4

[@shianewiley3250]

6000+ hours and Yea Let's just say we haven't really PLAYED!😂😂😂😂

[@briiiiiiL0L]

Same here., and I’ve got 23k+ hours 😬

[@noatmealcookie02]

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

[@dewberrystar]

the OG 😅

[@queencleopatra007]

You can BREED them??? How?

[@noatmealcookie02]

@@queencleopatra007 you have two frogs in your inventory and then click on one and choose to breed There are a few different types of frogs, so you can even get rare species

[@janniegurl05]

Frog breeding always makes me think of Lil Simsie 😆

[@leneaqgaming2755]

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!

[@MidnightDStroyer]

Yep, that's another thing to do. Most Sims visit community lots during the day & it kind of slacks off a bit in the evening but they don't completely abandon community lots until 2 or 3 am so you can keep your stand up as long as you want...minus your Sim taking care of personal needs, of course. NPC-type Sims can tire out & leave but the game will provide more to keep the lot as occupied as necessary, according to the time of day. Strangely enough, I saw Don Lothario tending one of the food stands at a Spice Festival once...

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

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.

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Ooh yess! What a great added bit of info Sabrina! That's such a great way to make some extra simoleons with archaeology :D

[@sakurasensations4786]

Is that base game or with a certain pack? :0

[@MelissaLawrence2002]

​@@sakurasensations4786 it comes with Jungle Adventure unfortunately

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

@@sakurasensations4786 Archeology skill comes with Jungle Adventure.

[@evennotodd]

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.

[@Jam-Beat]

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!

[@Ashes024]

Copypasto, it will lead to many great things (if those things are money, copypasto everything and you can earn a lot)

[@karntherandom1125]

Spellcasters, like what Pete’s previous video has said, can commit insurance fraud (inferniate, wait til the item burned to a crisp, get your insurance money, repairo, rinse and repeat). At higher levels you can copypasto like what Ashes said. If you have City Living or Jungle Adventure you can also make potions and charge exorbitant prices while doing a yard sale.

[@benjaminzammit4795]

Actually the potions thing doesn't really work, as in the potions all sell for dirt cheap so even with the markup you'll only get like a hundred simoleons for the rarer potions. Also be warned that the market stalls are kinda buggy and don't always work.

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

We can't have the spellcasters working a normal job now can we! Haha sending all the love back Jam Beat!

[@clairemercer3099]

Gardening is one of the most broken side hustles. I supported my teen sim to adulthood with this. Also getting the money tree pays off £8000 per harvest

[@daisyjo88]

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!

[@kpoppy9635]

Well I think active and semi-active careers can be fun. But yeah I can't have a sim with only a wormhole career. I get bored too easily.

[@sabrinaloizides-merideth9874]

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.

[@elainal6847]

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.

[@Liaju759]

That is such an interesting gameplay idea. I normally don’t incorporate parties that much so I will definitely try this out

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Ahaha Elaina this made me laugh :). And I'm totally here for this party host money making! Thank you for sharing.

[@TheMayniyak]

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 :))

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Ooh thank you for educating me Cnidarii!!

[@GK-ob1ni]

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.

[@mrsleesanders]

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

[@SigmaRho2922]

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

[@MidnightDStroyer]

Yeah, bonsai plants are available but if you also have Cottage Living you can grow them on several plots & can always have a supply for trimming & selling them. You can also use wall-size glass windows & glass panels for roof to make a greenhouse (the kit is not required; I don't have that), which allows you to grow pretty much any plant in "protected" conditions all year long. Another thing that helps is if you get Patchy the Strawman scarecrow & build up a friendship with him (try it), you can not only get some random seeds from his pockets occasionally & gardening advice but he can detach himself from his tree-mount & wander around doing your gardening chores for you. Heck, you can even adopt him into the family so you can check out his abilities in CAS (you have to give him a last name there) or even change them with the normal use of Skill & Trait cheats. You can also select them like any other playable Sim & have them improve/learn skills, even give them a job to go to...Just like any other playable Sim. As long as he's hanging around, he'll be putting gardening tasks as his top priority, hanging around & doing normal autonomous Sim activities in between garden tasks. I did this with Patchy in one family & had him earn some more skills. Eventually, I figured that he'd learned well enough to move out to his own place & set him up with a farm of his own. I also took him to the Magic Realm & he's a spellcaster. I'm fond of the fact that his Familiar is the Raven...Yeah, picture that if you saw him wandering on community lots. He's doing okay.

[@blue-lj7lz]

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.

[@haileybalmer9722]

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.

[@bosoudang]

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

[@MagnusItland]

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.

[@jai07070]

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!!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Awe shucks thank you so much Jai! Appreciate the super kind comment and I hope you have a 10/10 day too!! :D

[@janniegurl05]

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. 😁

[@hollyhartwick3832]

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.

[@skullyq1164]

lol, with Copypasto and the money trees from seasons once i get 1 money tree i quickly turn it into 20 then within 3 days i get like $200k+ 😂😂

[@hollyhartwick3832]

@@skullyq1164 - I've done that too. If you use the Set Gardening Quality debug to make the Money Fruit perfect before planting it, each tree can produce 22,000 a day. I stop at 5 trees to conserve yard space, but it nets me 110,000 a day, which is more than enough.

[@kmrazSilverSimmer73]

A lot of fun ideas. Have an amazing day!

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Thank you k mraz! Hope you're having a fabulous day too :D

[@lani6327]

Not me getting distracted by all the amazing song and video names 😂

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

Lani this has made me so very happy!

[@eshedyson6458]

How did I not know that you could make money from being a DJ. SMH, this is why I need your videos Petey!!

[@DaRat711]

Every video you make reignites my love for this game, thank you 🙏🏼

[@snurfbee58]

Wow, there are so many of these I didn't know! Great video! Thank you so much Petey.

[@MidnightDStroyer]

Another music-related "hustle" your Sims can do. Singing, recording/uploading, & DJ can net some pretty good pay, but your Sim can also carry a guitar or violin with them in the inventory so you can bust out & play for tips anywhere. I haven't tried to put a Busker's Stage in the inventory yet but if you can pull it off, that would be an alternative too. If you go into a club or lounge with microphone, piano, guitar, or violin but they don't have a musician (unless you hire one) then you can earn some simoleons that way too.

[@kellyssimsstories8982]

I’ve never collected posters! I’ll have to do that in my game

[@Evelyn-rb1zj]

I can't remember if realm of magic was before or after this but a lot of "selling small items" options pair extremely well with the copypasto spell which is interesting...

[@hannardee]

Gosh I've maxed out the scientist career with a sim, never knowing about the wormhole generator or the Sixam world! I'm always learning so many new things every time I watch a Petey video. Thank you for this!

[@lunathelightfury3096]

0:37 Her reaction gets me every time. 😂

[@outofnesters]

Thanks so much for continuing to provide such wonderful videos! 💙

[@user-uj2ft2zn6o]

I had no idea about what the DJ skill entailed so this is awesome. Thanks!

[@johnterpack3940]

Nectar will be on this list next time. It takes time to get started. But once you get some finely aged juice you can make really good money. I haven't even produced an excellent bottle or any of the rare recipes yet and I'm already selling bottles for 2,500.

[@UnassumingLlama]

Just a warning for #4, if you have Dream Home Decorator, the furniture objects usually aren’t transformable. Could be a bug or that they failed to update it for the SimRay

[@Selfloyalty]

I had no idea about the dog poop side hustle but now that I know, I want to do a rags to riches with it 😂

[@blazebardgames5939]

I wonder if it's possible to combine autograph hunting from Get Famous with the cloning machine from Get to Work and become an autograph forger. The only way I could see that working is if you could display autographs by propping the frame up on a table the way you can with photographs in TS4, and I've only ever had my Sims display their autograph collections on a wall, so I don't know off the top of my head whether or not you can place the autographed pictures on a surface.

[@slwrabbits]

Could you use the Copypasto spell from Realm of Magic?

[@blazebardgames5939]

@@slwrabbits Good idea. I might try that sometime to see if it works.

[@susanbrown4891]

😂Wow, Petey.😂 What great ideas. Saving autographs.😊

[@tonje_gram]

Nothing of value to say, but our algorithm overlord must have its offerings.

[@barbararebocho6729]

Building charisma and straight up asking money from other Sims 😅

[@crewsinthewest352]

I don’t know if it’s worth a whole video but I would like to know more about why the sky sparkles, both in gameplay and on the travel map.

[@BrokenDollyTV]

I like petey

[@mystryx7931]

Didn't know about posters

[@garcemac]

How did you get so many autographs? My girl is a Global Superstar and she only has eight.

[@greenchylde2858]

i wonder if you can sell the new foals coming out....

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

I am actually so surprised by how many ways there are to make money with horses Green!! :D

[@greenchylde2858]

@@PeteyPlaysIt oh thats awesome to know! also i ran my kid on a horse and he skilled up insanely quick not only horseback riding but also motor.

[@ultimategame447]

do you use mods ? my science machine is broken animation

[@PeteyPlaysIt]

I think this was just fixed in the recent patch notes! I had this problem too and only escaped it by reusing some old footage that I had gotten for a different video.

[@angelcochran7550]

Can you do Sims 4 get famous packs only please thank you because I'm getting one for my birthday

[@UnassumingLlama]

Like a gameplay guide? He’s got a few videos on it, check out his playlists for them!

[@nardo218]

I can't listen to this voice.