I made this because I wanted my sims who live near the sea to be able to earn their living from it, and I HATE Eaxis oceanography career. There are no supernaturals in this career, mermaids and Greek gods need not apply. It also sticks to fishing rather than veering randomly into conservation/research, which I think is improbable. However, the career has its own GUID and should not overwrite any other, so you can have oceanography as well.
Job levels, descriptions, rates of pay etc. are below the spoiler.
1. Processing Plant Worker
Well, you got your first job, and its not badly paid. BUT. Standing for hours at a time in a rubber apron, slitting open the bellies of passing fish on a production line and pulling their intestines out, is not your idea of glamorous work. You permanently smell of fish guts and yearn for the great outdoors.
Mon – Friday, 7.a.m. - 3.p.m. £120
Required for promotion: Mechanical 1, Body 1, Cleaning 1.
2. Fish Farm Worker
It is some relief to have got an outdoor job. You work outside in all weathers, feeding the fish and checking their health, cleaning out the filters on their traps and checking water quality. Its a quite interesting job, but a bit isolated.
Mon-Fri, 8.a.m. -3 p.m. £145
Required for promotion: Mechanical 2, Body 2, Cleaning 1.
3. Clam Digger
Your working life is now spent on remote beaches digging up shellfish and wading through rock pools, feeling for them with your feet. Its a pleasant way to spend a working day (in summer) but still very isolated.
Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri, Sat 7a.m.-3 p.m. £220
Required for promotion:
Mechanical 3, body 3, cleaning 1.
4. Line Fisherman
You now earn your living catching salmon and bass with rod and line. You are less isolated now, there are other fishermen nearby to talk to. However, your income is very uncertain, it all depends on what you can catch.
Mon – Sat, 7.a.m. - 2 p.m. £200
Required for promotion: Mechanical 4, Body 3, Cleaning 1, Friends 1.
5. Lobster Boat Crew
You have been offered the opportunity to go to sea, working as a hand on a lobster boat. You cut bait, bait pots, haul in the catch and retrieve the lobsters. Be careful! Those things can nip.
With your lobster boat experience, you have landed a place on a bigger fishing vessel. It is much better paid, however you are away at sea for days, or even weeks at a time. The work is hard and sometimes dangerous, but you are learning useful skills in navigation, engineering and even cooking. While at sea, you live in very close proximity to the rest of the crew. To think you were ever lonely!
As skipper of the trawler, you are responsible for deciding where the trawler goes to fish and what fish it goes for. If you are wrong, the catch will be small and the trip will not turn a profit. You need to have a good knowledge of fish and seamanship, be decisive, and keep a cool head in an emergency.
With your profits as a trawler skipper, you have bought your own boat! But instead of a commercial fishing boat, you have decided to go for the glamorous end of the fishing industry, hiring out to parties of keen amateur fishermen. Your knowledge of the sea and fishing is still very important as they will expect a good haul. However, your hospitality and people skills need to come to the fore now, as your diary will only stay full of bookings if all your punters have a great time.
You have made a career move back onto dry land, by starting a wholesale fish market. You buy fish and shellfish from the fishing boats and sell them on to restaurants and food shops. It takes a good business brain, but your knowledge of fish and the fishing industry give you a good start, and you have learned a lot about restaurants and food from your charter boat customers. For the first time you are working office hours indoors, and can have a social life outside of work.
Due to your in depth experience of many aspects of the fishing industry, you are now widely acknowledged to be an expert. You write articles, and attend conferences. Governments take your views into account when creating legislation that will affect the fishing industry, and you have become an international expert witness, called to give evidence at enquiries and trials that relate to fishing activities . You start to wonder if there might be a market for your autobiography – but perhaps not.
Mon, Wed, Fri 10.a.m. - 2.p.m. £2,750
Required for promotion: Not applicable.
There are chance cards for every level, but I won't give the text of them all. Find out for yourself. I promise NO MERMAIDS
Example chance card:
3. By chance, you have learned of a large bed of oysters close to the shore, in a place no one else knows of yet. The oysters are large and plump, but unfortunately this may be due in part to the outflow of a sewage works just along the coast. However, you don't know for sure whether the oysters are polluted or not. Should you take them or leave them? TAKE THEM GOOD: You get a good price from local restaurants for the delicious oysters, and your reputation as someone who knows their shellfish spreads. As a result, you are offered a place on a lobster boat. You are promoted two levels! BAD: There is an outbreak of food poisoning among your customers, due to polluted oysters. You are obliged to admit where they came from, and loose your credibility and your customers. You have to go back to your old job at the fish farm. LEAVE THEM GOOD: Later you see another clam digger collecting them, and hope you didn't make a mistake. When you hear about an outbreak of food poisoning at a local restaurant he supplies, you report the location of the oyster bed to the authorities. When tested, it is discovered to be polluted. The other clam digger is discredited and the restaurant promises to buy all its seafood from you from now onwards. Gain a charisma point for your good reputation. BAD: Later, you see another clam digger collecting the oysters. He sells them to your usual customers and every where you go you hear of how good they were. Doh! You should have realised the outflow from the sewage works was far enough out to sea that it wouldn't be able to make it back to land at that point. Lose 1 mechanical point for not understanding the currents and tides properly.
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