ICT Apprenticeship

Originally released 11/03/2013

Update Log:
– 18th September, 2020 ~ Added Chinese translation

This Apprenticeship can promote into my IT Career. Only the Base Game is needed.

Now, these Apprenticeships are, essentially, part-time teen careers. Your teens can go and apply at the associated rabbit-hole building and land themselves a three-level apprenticeship. To change the designated rabbithole to suit your own requirements, I have a tutorial HERE for you to follow. They will earn money each day and will work from 4pm-7pm, Monday to Friday.

Once your teen is promoted to Level 3, they will receive a reward certificate in their Family Inventory to put up on the wall to show off their achievements. As an additional bonus, when your teen ages up to Young Adult, when they apply for the connecting career, they’ll start at a higher level!
Each Apprenticeship has its own custom uniform. There are, currently, no opportunities. It’s challenging enough getting the teens to complete homework and build up the required skills, without throwing extra opportunities into the equation!

How The Promoting Works

When your teenage Sim ages up while employed in an Apprenticeship, they will appear to stay in the apprenticeship. In order for them to get into the “Adult” career, your Sim needs to apply for the job via the Rabbithole, or on the newspaper or computer, as normal. They will appear to only be in level one of the “Adult” career when they join, but after a few moments, it will change to a different level.
If your Sim is at Level One in the apprenticeship, they will not gain any career advancement.
If your Sim is at Level Two in the apprenticeship, they will promote into Level 4 in the “Adult” career.
If your Sim is at Level Three in the apprenticeship, they will promote into Level 6 in the “Adult” career.

Please don’t ask me to change this! It’s the way to code works in Twallan’s Careers mod and I can’t change it.
The Apprenticeship is in English and supports Spanish, German, Russian, French, Dutch and Chinese translations.

The Apprenticeship is located at the Business and Journalism Office and has a custom uniform for all three levels. It focuses on the Handiness, Logic and Charisma skills.

Uniform for all three levels.

1. Helpdesk Professional ~ Intermediate: Your charisma skills are going to be essential here as you help customers identify problems with their laptops and computers. It’s going to be up to you to identify, troubleshoot and escalate IT problems and be as helpful to the customers as possible. But one word of advice: Don’t get angry with the impatient customers. Put yourself in their place. If your computer had crashed in the middle of your Sims legacy, you’d be upset too.
§10/hour
Hours: 4.00pm ~ 7.00pm
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

2. Software Tester ~ Advanced: So new software is being developed all the time. But before the software can be released to the software-hungry masses, they need to be extensively tested and that’s where you come in! While you’re testing the programmes and reporting issues, you’ll be learning how to make the software so that one day, you might become a Developer yourself.
§15/hour
Hours: 4.00pm ~ 7.00pm
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

3. Software Developer ~ Higher: Ahh, how you reminisce on the days of merely being a Tester. Okay, so it was only yesterday, but that doesn’t matter. You’re a developer yourself now and you call the shots. Sort of. You’re in charge of your own group of Software Testers who will test your pieces of software. Start small, don’t try and make a huge programme on your first try. It’s bound to end in heartache, misery and possible unemployment. Congratulations on your dedication!
§20/hour
Hours: 4.00pm ~ 7.00pm
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

There are three custom tones; Mend Computers, which builds the Handiness skill; Troubleshoot, which builds the Charisma skill and Sit Exam, which boosts overall performance.

Translating 

I’m not fluent enough in any other languages to translate, so if you’re interested in translating this career into your language, then please open the LanguageStrings file in Notepad.

<KEY>Gameplay/Excel/Careers/CareerList:Example</KEY>

<STR>Translate This Text</STR>

Do that for the entire file, then email me your translation to: missyhissy0913@hotmail.co.uk and let me know which language you’re translating to. 

The career works for me but if you have any issues, please don’t hesitate to let me know and I’ll do my best to sort it as quickly as possible.

Credits:
Twallan, for his excellent Careers Mod
Inge and Peter Jones for S3PE
Creon, for his tutorial on Career Creating
argos93, Angie, Victor, SecretX, Eline, Lessien Vardamir and vkey for translating!