The career I’ve been working on is now ready for anyone who may be interested in using it in their game. Below are a few screenshots from the game.
The career was cloned from the medical career, but uses its own unique GUID, so it does not replace any other content. It will show up on the computer and in the newspaper randomly among any other Maxis or custom careers. Since there is already a psychology career on MTS (that focuses on criminal psychology), I labeled this one “Counseling Psychology” to differentiate it in case you have the other career installed also.
There are 10 levels:
- Assembly Troupe Actor
- Intern
- Assistant Counselor
- School Counselor
- Social Worker
- Family Therapist
- Developmental Psychologist
- Psychology Professor
- Psychology Expert
- Head of Psychology
The carpool comes and goes as it should, and your Sim will get promotions and bonuses as per any other career. This career focuses on charisma and logic, and I made it so that it doesn’t require very many friends to advance (because it always annoys me that promotions are based on how many friends you have).
There are chance cards for each level. Each option has a right and wrong answer, whichever you get depends on whatever the game happens to pull randomly. The wrong answers are never too bad–just losing a skill point or a little bit of money. I don’t like when a bad chance card causes you to be fired or demoted six levels, so I didn’t include that. Only level 10 has a bad outcome of demotion, but it’s only one level so you could easily work your way back up again. Of course, you can always ignore the cards if you want.
Level one does not have a uniform, but the other levels do. The uniforms are from the base game, so you shouldn’t have any problem with your Sim not changing clothes.
As I said, focus on logic and charisma. The different levels have different days and hours that you work. You can see a description of the level you’re at if you hover over the job title, just as with the Maxis careers.
If you have any problems or see anything weird or find misspellings on the descriptions, please let me know! This psychology career focuses on the counseling side of psychology, since that was the branch I wanted for Audrey.
Click here to download and then just drop the file into your Downloads folder.
Wow! This is an amazing piece of work right here, congratulations are in order! And thanks for making it available for download too! *Goes of to download*
Thanks! π It was a lot of work to build, but I’m happy it’s done!
I have a sim in mind for this! Congrats on finishing it, I know it was a pain! You have much more patience than I π
Thanks! lol, I don’t have much patience, but somehow I managed to get this done. π
That is so cool that you made that, I’m in AWE!
Thanks! I’m pretty proud of myself for actually getting it done. And it wasn’t as complicated as I expected, just a pain to write out all those chance cards. π
Beautiful! You did an amazing job, thanks for all your hard work.
Thanks! I hope you all enjoy it! π
Yay! I’m excited to give this a whirl. π π
I’m looking forward to seeing it in use in other people’s hoods! π
Yay! I am so happy! I was just making my education notes regarding advanced degrees the other day, and I have a rule that certain careers require certification and psychology was one of them. One branch was counseling psychology and one was scientific psychology. I will get this as soon as I get home from work and will probably get the other one at MTS. Thanks so much!
You’re welcome! I’m making this career require a degree or certification also in my hood notes. Good thing Audrey went back to school and finished up her degree. π The one at MTS is nice too, just a different branch of psychology than what I was looking for. But I named this one differently so that both could be used without confusion. π
This looks great! I wasn’t too interested in the criminal psych career but this is more my style. π Now to find the right Sim for it!
I hope you have fun with it! I’m looking forward to seeing other people use it in their hoods and a bit nervous about whether everything is okay since this is the first one I’ve ever built, lol! π
Oh, wow, it looks awesome! Great work and thanks for sharing it… my psychologist sim is currently working in the medical career, but not for much longer… π
Thanks! And you’re welcome! π I hope your psychologist sim enjoys the new career.
I am definitely nabbing this – I don’t know when it’ll come in handy but I’ll be using it at the first opportunity I get!
This is great! Now I just have to think of a sim who could get into this career. Thanks π
Thanks! You did a great job with this career.
Thanks so much for this. I have a sim I’m dying to put in with something related with psychology, especially because that was her major. Thanks so much.
I have a sim that this career would be perfect for. Thank you so much for this. It’s much appreciated. =)