The Sims 3 Science Career Track

This Sims 3 Guide was originally written for the PC and Mac versions of the game, but also will help owners of the console versions - PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Please remember some info or numbers may have changed.

To apply for the Sims 3's Science Career Track, you should have your Sim head to the science laboratory in town. Its symbol looks a bit like a nuclear fallout symbol. The Sims 3's science career track can be demanding, requiring gardening, fishing, and handiness skills to advance. All this hard work will pay off, however.

Besides having to work only three days a week at a high pay rate, your Mad Scientist Sim will have the ability to perform experiments on objects in their home. This could be anything from a chair to refrigerator. These experiments can bestow positive effects on items, from making them more beautiful (room decoration bonus), to making sims happy when they're nearby (mood bonus). Be careful, as bad experiments can have the opposite effect. They can even set an object on fire. Experiments that cause negative effects can be removed with the undo experiment action.

Lifetime Wishes Associated with this Career Track
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• Become a Creature-Robot Cross Breeder


• Renaissance Sim Scientists need a lot of skills, so this is a very reasonable wish for a dededicated lab junkie to select.

Good Traits for The Sims 3's Science Career Track

Green Thumb
The most important trait, it will help your Sim early on as gardening is the first performance metric. It directly affects how easily your Sim will raise the gardening skill. There are other perks as well, such as the ability to revive plants. This may come in handy if your Sim decides to actually use all that training in gardening outside the lab.

Handy
Not only will the handy trait aid your Sim in learning the handiness skill, they'll also never fail to upgrade or repair an object. That means your Sim is safe from nasty electrocutions when they're upgrading electronics.

Angler
Fishing doesn't appear as a job performance metric until level 6, so angler can help your Sim play a little catch up. I would probably make my scientist fish for fun on his off days, to get a head start on raising this skill.

Look to Good Traits For Every Career for more ideas.

Science Career Uniforms
Useless Contraption Manipulator Uniform	Fertilizer Analyst Uniform
Aquatic Ecosystem Tweaker Uniform	Top Secret Researcher Uniform
Creature-Robot Cross Breeder Uniform	Mad Scientist Uniform

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Morgana says...

My sim is in the science carrer and its earning me BIG money bc both my sims are the same carrer......
but my sims wont earn skills or anything for their job!!!!!
and i dont know how to get promoted!!!
help!!!
oh i have the PS3 Version to let you know

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26th December 2012 9:15pm

Sketchyfk says...

At level 10 you will gain the ability to experiment on different objects in your home and around town. You can either gain a positive effect or a negitive effect. Unsure what the best positive effects are however the worst negitive so far is the item disapears altogether

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14th January 2013 10:08pm

James says...

Morgana look at skills that will tell you what skills you need for the job

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3rd February 2013 5:49pm

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