Bustin' Out Mode Careers

In Bustin' Out mode, your Sim can choose from any of the seven available careers by picking up a newspaper or hopping onto a computer. You can choose from any available career at any time; if you decide to leave one career for another, you retain all of the promotions that you gained in the first career and can switch back to it at any time you wish without penalty. So, feel free to mix and match your careers based on what skills you have at any given time; if you don't feel like raising your stats to qualify for the next promotion in a career track, just switch to something else and get back to work.

You can only earn promotions in a career if you're living in the correct house, which means that you'll need to be moving from house to house in order to climb the corporate ladder. Each location only has two possible promotions in a career, so if you're attempting to quickly accelerate through a single career track, you can expect to be moving once every couple of days. Luckily, all of the low-level promotions are available through Mimi's Place and Dudley's Trailer, so you can work for a couple of days in each job, then switch to another job from the same location and not have to move. You can repeat this process at each higher tier of houses until you start running into jobs that require you to increase your skills; doing so will help you avoid having to move back into the lower-level houses, since you'll probably be able to complete all of their non-career goals in the week or so that you'll be living there while you get all of the available promotions.

Although, as mentioned, you'll have to get to level 10 in all careers if you wish to complete the final objective in Bustin' Out mode, it's usually advantageous to start out in the Paramilitary career track at Dudley's Trailer. It offers much better pay after the first four or five promotions than do the other careers, letting you get a head start on buying the more expensive equipment. From there, you can dabble in the other careers and pick which ones suit you, or match whichever house you feel like living in at the moment.

Paramilitary

Level 1
Title: Latrine Cleaner
Pay: $250
Hours: 10 AM - 2 PM
Total Skills Needed: None
Friends Needed: None

Level 2
Title: Boot Polisher
Pay: $325
Hours: 8 AM - 12 PM
Total Skills Needed: None
Friends Needed: None

Level 3
Title: Drill Instructor
Pay: $400
Hours: 9 AM - 2 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 2
Friends Needed: None

Level 4
Title: Paratrooper
Pay: $450
Hours: 6 AM - 12 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 4, Body 2
Friends Needed: None

Level 5
Title: Chopper Pilot
Pay: $500
Hours: 6 AM - 12 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 5, Body 4
Friends Needed: None

Level 6
Title: Covert Ops
Pay: $550
Hours: 9 AM - 3 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 6, Body 4, Charisma 2
Friends Needed: 1

Level 7
Title: Secret Agent
Pay: $580
Hours: 9 AM - 3 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 7, Body 5, Charisma 2, Mechanical 1
Friends Needed: 2

Level 8
Title: Code Breaker
Pay: $600
Hours: 9 AM - 3 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 8, Body 5, Charisma 2, Mechanical 4
Friends Needed: 5

Level 9
Title: Intelligence Director
Pay: $700
Hours: 9 AM - 3 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 9, Body 8, Charisma 2, Mechanical 7
Friends Needed: 6

Level 10
Title: War Minister
Pay: $1,000
Hours: 9 AM - 3 PM
Total Skills Needed: Logic 10, Body 10, Charisma 4, Mechanical 8
Friends Needed: 6