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[10.02] Career Benefits

Benefit #1 - Life of Luxury

"No matter how career-oriented a Sim may be, vacation days keep their morale
 up and head. Your employers value you so much that they let you build
 vacation days much faster than your colleagues."

I personally believe that vacation days are quite unnecessary because you 
could just call in sick if you miss the carpool or didn't get to your car in
time. Vacation days are only good if you have worked hard and don't really 
want to work for a week or so. However, the benefits that lie ahead are far
more appealing than this one, and as such, this is a stepping stone for
what lies ahead. The only good thing about the vacation day over the sick day
is that you get paid for it. What company will pay money to their employees
to not turn up? Cause I wanna join.

Benefit #2 - Business Instinct

"While some Sims may try to wrigh the pros and cons of every decision, the
 profits often go to whoever makes the right choice the fastest. You always
 go with your gut, and your career chance card choices are right eighty 
 percent of the time, every time."

This one is actually decent because chance cards can really pay off. While
at the lower end of the career ladder, they can help build your skills up
good, and at the other end of the ladder, they can really pay off the big
Simoleons. At the other end, you are looking onwards of 40k, and since you
have a 80% chance of being right, the odds are looking good for a big 
bonus.

Benefit #3 - Friends in High Places

"When you're buddies with an executive, you get promoted even though nobody
 else likes you! Your friend requirement for any promotion in any career is
 reduced by one."

This is useful to some degree, moreso at the other end of the career ladder,
where you need a large amount of friends and that can mean a lot of 
maintenance. Therefore, reducing the amount of friends that you need can be
relatively helpful, but at the other end of the scale, you can have some more
valuable time to build up your skills, rather than making friends. Also, with
one less friend, that is one less relationship that you have to maintain, and
if you have 15 friends, maintenance can be a bit of a problem. 

Benefit #4 - Plead for Job

"A true go-getter doesn't let a little thing like getting fired stand in the
 way of their career! This interaction, available on all phones for 24 hours
 after being fired, allows you to appeal to your boss for one last chance.

 (This benefit only applies to standard careers, not to Sim-owned businesses)

A decent benefit that has some good qualities to it. F?irst of all, being 
fired can be the result of a dud chance card, and think of this as insurance
against that 20% going against you. Other than that, it isn't too easy to get
fired. As such, the plead for job is useful, in an emergency. Of course, 
there is a success rate of the odds whether your boss will take you back or
not, and that will depend on your job performance meter. If it is poor, then
your odds of success is quite low, while on the otherhand, if it is full, then
things will look up. And the final statement applies to Open for Business 
users, as the Employee cannot plead for job.

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[10.03] Needs Benefits

Benefit #1 - Slower Need Decay - Social and Comfort

"Sitting in a coffee shop with a friend is a great way to unwind, but you've
 learned there are times when a responsible Sim has to ignore their desire
 for social interaction and comfort."

This first one is a pretty good benefit. Social decay can drain pretty fast
and it one of the most annoying to keep at a high level. Comfort is quite
easy to refill, but quick to drain. Besides, any slowing in decay must be a 
good thing, right? Social is a pain for people with no friends, so any slowing
of the decay is great. 

Benefit #2 - Slower Need Decay - Bladder and Hygiene

"For some vain Sims, personal hygiene can take up hours per day. You, however,
 exhibit the effortless perfection that only the truly self-confident can 
 pull off."

Another slower decay, but even more useful than the other. Bladder is the 
fastest to decay, and hygiene is a close second, and most activities will drop
those two like flies meeting fly spray. Therefore, any drop may help you make
a little more Simoleon, for the same some of bathroom time. With slower decay,
you can keep your mood up for work.

Benefit #3 - Slower Need Decay - Fun and Hunger

"Like most Sims, you love slacking off with a bag of chips in front of the TV.
 However, you're mature enough to know you need to take care of all your
 responsibilities before giving in to such temptation."

Well, the slower hunger decay is a good thing, because it does take time to
cook a decent meal, and a bit more time to actually eat the meal. Its all 
about efficiency. Anyway, the fun decay is decent, but isn't the best thing
in the world. Fun actually does decay however, faster when you are building
your skills, so it is quite handy, at times. So with this, you Sims will get
less bored by reading a boring book. Not bad at all.

Benefit #4 - Slower Need Decay - Energy

"When those around you seem to brag through life like as groggy zombies,
 it's easy for someone as happy and healthy as you to feel energised all
 through the day."

This is a great incentive to increase the Needs benefits. Why? Because energy
is something that takes a long time to refill, even the fastest bed will take
at least 4 hours to refill a depleted meter. Therefore, any slowing of the
energy decay will make that 4 hours last even longer, which is a good thing,
after all, any need decay that is slowed will make any refilling interaction
worth more and last much longer, which in turn, is a good thing, believe it
or not. 

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[10.04] Popularity Benefits

Benefit #1 - Hospitality

"Being the outgoing and gregarious Sim that you are, you're always quick to 
 invite a new friend into your home. You are more likely to bring home a 
 friend from work or school."

This is a good benefit if you are seeking to make friends. You will get a 
nice boost to your relationship meter if you bring them home, to the tune of
25 daily relationship and 10 lifetime relationship, and this gives you a 
nice stepping stone to becoming a good friend. A great first step to the
world of being popular.

Benefit #2 - Slower Need Decay - Bladder and Energy

"A true party Sim knows that going to the bathroom or falling alseep is the
 surest way to miss a party's best moment. You avoid the heedless call of 
 nature and you think sleeping is best left to babies and cats."

This one starts off with a nice touch. The Bladder bar will have a slower 
decay, and since they have the fastest decay rate, this would be helpful 
somewhat in containing the amount of times you need to go to the toilet, even
though your Sims don't drink any wayer at all. The Energy bar has the slowest
decay, but a large refill time, and as such, you are getting more bang for 
your buck.

Benefit #3 - 3-Way Calling

"While a standard conservation may be enough stimulation for a normal Sim, the
 true social butterfly prefers a conference call. During a phone conservation
 with another Sim, you can use the phone to call a third Sim, and build 
 relationship with both."

If you use the phone to maintain relationships, or to drag up a low social 
bar, this is the benefit for you. While you are talking to one person, you
can use this benefit to call another person and build relationships with both
of them. This way, when you make one friend via the phone, this benefit will
effectively double the amount of friends you make in the end. Also, it will
end up with the other two Sims being friendly with each other. The problem is
that you end up having a massive phone bill.

Benefit #4 - Fast Friends

"A truly open-minded socialite, you value friendship with any and all Sims who
 cross your path. Your positive relationship gains with other Sims are always
 larger than those of Sims without this benefit."

Again, this is another benefit that helps you make more friends. This 
basically means that any positive interaction, or successful interaction, will
net your more relationship points than usual. The extra amount you gain will
depend on the amount usually gain from a successful interaction. Only 
successful interactions are multiplied, unsuccessful interactions will not
result in more points being lost.

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[10.05] Romance Benefits

Benefit #1 - Massive Attraction

"If there's one thing you know how to do, it's strike up a conservation with a
 hot stranger. Using a combination of psychology, wit, and sheer animal
 magnetism, you create a large boost in chemistry with any Sim you meet."

This benefit basically increases the chemistry with every Sim you meet, 
allowing you to edge closer to that elusive 3 Bolt chemistry mark. While this
may make a fast track to a romantic relationship, you really don't want 
estranged, angry, ex-lovers coming after you, slapping you for an affair 
because more chemistry relationed actions are related ones. And the Chemistry
is only for those your Sims are actually attracted to, so heterosexual Sims
will not gain more Chemistry with Sims of the same gender, and vice versa.

Benefit #2 - Slower Need Decay - Hygiene and Energy

"The hallmark of a true romance Sim is their ability to not only stay up
 all night, but to look and smell great for the duration. You can spend less
 time on sleep and hygiene, which frees you up for ... other pursuits."

The hygiene benefit is not that useful, after all, if you are going to go to
the toilet, might as well take a bath while you're at it. Again, anything
that will slow the rate energy slows down is good since energy takes a long
time to recharge, and coffee can only get you so far without making you run
to the toilet.

Benefit #3 - Local Legend

"There comes a time in every Casanova's life when their reputation begins to
 precede them. Word of your romantic prowess has spread through town, and
 neighbours of your preferred gender are more likely to be found
 "coincidentally" strolling past your house."

Well, if you are really desperate for a partner, or a new lover, then this is 
the one for you. The gender that you prefer is quite simple to determine. If
you are a romance Sim, you can easily look at your wants panel and see who
you want to flirt with. Well, once you have this, do a count on which gender
runs past the fastest. Useful if you are desperate, not useful if you are not.
And besides, how many Sims can accidently walk past your house hoping for a 
long night?

Benefit #4 - Smooth Talk

"Every romance Sim worth their salt knows the second most important thing to
 getting a lover is keeping them. The Smooth Talk interaction is useful not
 only to build relationship quickly with a potential romantic interest, but
 it also smooths things over with a Sim who is furious with you."

This is useful for romance Sims as you are going to have furious Sims who
have caught you in the act. With this new interaction, you are able to stop
the furious meter, and this will allow you to resume normal interaction with
that Sim, and the relationship is restored. This can also increase your
relationship with other friends by boosting your score, despite not being
in the furious state.

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[10.06] Fortune Benefits

Benefit #1 - Skilled Negotiator

"Fortune-minded Sims are naturals at the fine art of haggling, and what
 negotiations could be more important than the one of your salary? Your
 ruthless nature nets you a hefty bump in salary compared to other Sims."

This is a good boost in the Simoleons that you will bring home. This is 
basically an increase in the amount you bring home after you return from work.
Although this is not witnessed from your job panel, if you read the remark of
"Welcome Home ____" the amount that you bring back can be up to 25% of your
normal salary. Useful if you are desperate for the extra cash to pay the 
bills off.

Benefit #2 - Slower Need Decay - Fun and Comfort

"If there's a place you should never find an aspiring millionaire, it's on the
 couch watching TV. While other Sims slack off, you're willing to shortchange
 fun and comfort in favour of that next big check."

This is one of the most useless of the benefits since both bars are relatively
easy to fill up by sitting down watching TV. Any since FreeTime has some 
decent things to do with the television, this is pretty useless. But the 
benefits down the chain are not. And besides, they both drop pretty fast, but
the Needs Rewards already cover it, so it is rather moot. 

Benefit #3 - Financial Advice for Cash

"When people get the idea that you're an expert at something, it's a very
 simple matter to sucker them into giving you some of their money. The Giv
 Financial Advice interaction, available on any computer, allows you to make
 money every hour from the comfort of your office."

Make money from the computer. Although it does make some money, it will depend
on your overall skill level. If you have pretty weak skills overall, you will
average about 75 Simoleons in an hour or so, 200 Simoleons at the end of the
scale. While this may make some money, you are probably better off drawing
paintings or selling items make from the pottery wheel. In the end, it is good
for a quick buck, but for a job, this isn't exactly the best way to go.

Benefit #4 - Investing

"For a smart Sim with good instincts, playing the stock market can seem like 
 making money out of thin air. Each afternoon, you'll have a chance to gain or
 lose some of your family funds. If other members of your household have this
 benefit, your chances of making a profit are increased."

This is quite a useful benefit because you actually are making money without
doing anything. Every afternoon, at 4pm, you will have the chance of making
or losing money, the amount you gain or lose will depend on your family
funds, the more you have, the more you stand to win or lose. Also, the amount
of people with this benefit in your household will have an effect, but hey, 
it is literally free money. And who doesn't want that? Again, it will not be
a truckload of money, but some money is better than none. 

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[10.07] Knowledge Benefits

Benefit #1 - Slower Need Decay - Social and Fun

"While other Sims spend their time at parties and on dates, you've got your
 priorities in order for a lifetime of learning. You still like to watch TV
 or talk on the phone from time to time, but not as often as other Sims."

This is semi useful, since Social is quite a pain to refill and quick to
decay, but since Fun will drop while you are reading books, this is useful
for those who will want to gain skills. But you can gain skills, albeit 
limited, from the television, so maybe social is the only thing that should
be used here.

Benefit #2 - Impart Knowledge

"You've spent so much of your life with your nose in a book that you can
 practically substitute for one. This interaction, under the Talk ... menu,
 lets you offer to teach another Sim a skill you know well. Sims can also use
 the Ask ... menu to request that you give them a lesson."

Well, this is basically like teaching a Sim skills from a career reward. You
can only impart knowledge in a field as long as your skill level is higher
than that of the Sim you wish to teach, rather than being equal or below their
skill level, otherwise, they'd be teaching you. Useful in some fields, such as
Cleaning, but less useful in others, such as cooking. It is actually faster
than a book, so it isn't such a bad idea to learn from a sensei. So, little
up little grasshopper...

Benefit #3 - Eureka!

"There are left-brained Sims, and there are right-brained Sims, and then 
 there's you. By thinking with both hemispheres of your brain, you experience
 moments of clarity that make your learning rate much faster than those other
 half-brained types."

This is exceptionally helpful for building skills, since your learning rate is
much increased. Useful if you want the job promotion the very next day after
you have been promoted today. For anybody who wants a quick skill boost, this
is the way to go. And when you are at the top, you can teach your skills to 
those not as talented as you, so not bad at all. Too bad you can't run a 
tutoring school, otherwise, you'd be making some serious money.

Benefit #4 - Summon Aliens

"What knowledge could be more tantalizing than that of life on another planet?
 This interaction, available on all telescopes, allows you to attempt to 
 hitch a ride on any flying saucers that happen to be passing by."

Well, if you want a quick fix to the abducted by aliens want, here it is. This
is only useful if you want an alien baby, or to furfil that want, but other
than that, it is not as useful as it could be. After all, you only want to 
be abducted some many times.

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[10.08] Pleasure Seeker Benefits

Benefit #1 - Fast Metabolism

"With all the dining out you do, it'd be easy to let your physique fall into
 disrepair. Lucky for you, you've got those enviable genes that let you keep
 in tip-top shape with just an occasional workout. You burn off fat much
 faster than normal Sims."

This is quite an interesting benefit, one I benefit myself. Anyway, this one
is where you can exercise to burn off fat. That is, move from the fat shape
to the fit shape by exercising. With this benefit, your exercise will shed
more fat than those who do it the hard way. Not too bad if you actually eat
a lot, but if you don't indulge in those 15 course meals, it isn't all that
useful.

Benefit #2 - Slower Need Decay - Bladder and Energy

"The keep up a lifestyle of constant partying and late nights on the town,
 self disclipine is key. You've mastered the brutal art of the mid-week 
 all-nighter, and your neighbour's brother's friend's cousin claims he
 once saw you stand in line for a club's bathroom for six hours without
 even breaking a sweat."

This is a better benefit, as both are quite useful. Bladder has a very
quick decay and energy a slow one, but making them even slower is better
since it will mean you don't need to go to the toilet as often as well as
going to bed later and waking earlier. Not too bad, you can go for an extra
game of pool in the time and knock down more mixed drinks that anyone else.
Remember kids, don't binge drink, it isn't good for you, or your liver, or
your wallet.

Benefit #3 - Write Restaurant Guide

"After spending thousands and thousands of Simoleons on dinner and drinks
 over the years, you've come up with a plan to recoup some of your costs. 
 This interaction, available on any ocmputer, lets you turn your food
 enthusiasm and cooking skill into guides that can be sold to a publisher."

This is one available on the computer which allows you to basically, write
a novel with the difference of one being fiction and the other being about
food. With the Restaurant Guide, you basically rely on your cooking skill
level to make some money. The higher the skill, the higher you chances of
success are. And might I mention that this will increase you interest in the
hobby of Cuisine. This is a great way to make some money, but the time to
make a book compared to how much some jobs pay, it is only worthwhile in
your Sim's spare time, not as a full time job. After all, I only FAQ in my
spare time, not a job.

Benefit #4 - Rowdy Folk Song

"Between all late-night party animals there seems to be a shared knowledge 
 of a song that won't be found in any book or jukebox. You have no memory
 of how you learned it, but it's a great way to build relationships with a 
 large group of revelers."

This one is an interesting one because the folk song can help you increase
your social and your fun as well as building the relationships with the other
Sims that you are singing with. Interesting, but not the best way to make
some friends. Still, it is a mass social interaction since everyone will be
forced to join in, less they get kicked out of the massive group that you are
now leading.

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[10.09] Family Benefits

Benefit #1 - Grandpa's Comfort Soup

"A family recipe passed down through generations, this savoury soup increase
 the comfort of any Sim who eats it. It also cures the Sim of any sickness
 they may have."

This is a great benefit to start things off. This soup, which you can cook 
with no cooking skill requirements, will refill the hunger bar because it is
still food, and the comfort bar because it is a comfort soup. And the fact
that is can cure sickness is interesting because it is much better than 
sleeping or resting for 14 hours. 1 soup v 14 hours, I'd pick the soup. One
of the most useful skills, and if you have OfB, you can sell this for some
money.

Benefit #2 - Slower Need Decay - Fun and Comfort

"Any good parent knows they need to put the needs of their family before
 their own. To ensure that your family gets the most fun and comfort you can
 provide, you're willing to forego some in your own life."

This is one of the most useless of the benefits since both bars are relatively
easy to fill up by sitting down watching TV. Any since FreeTime has some 
decent things to do with the television, this is pretty useless. But the 
benefits down the chain are not.

Benefit #3 - Plead With the Social Worker

"Every parent makes mistakes, but it is possible to get a second chance at 
 raising your kids. If the social worker comes to collect your kids as a 
 result of poor parenting, you'll have a chance to please your case with her.
 The higher relationship you have with your kids, the more likely she is to
 hold off on taking them away."

To get the social worker in the first place, you will seriously have to
neglect the needs of your child, which is not that easy to do. It is useful
if you have made a single mistake, like going to work and not feeding it,
and the social worker comes along, you may get a second chance. It all 
depends on your relationship, and a roll of the dice. Seriously, you must be
a bad parent if you end up with this.

Benefit #4 - Super Fertility

"What could be more adorable than a new bundle of joy in the family? A
 matched set! You or your partner have a greatly increased chance of giving
 birth to twins when becoming pregnent."

Well, this is useful, but think about it, twins means a lot more work than a
single child. Twins will make your life a pain because you need to look after
two sets of needs to ward off the social worker. Sure, it will increase your
Aspiration points, but can you protect them from the social worker? Sounds
like a good idea for a new movie. Anyway, for those with Open for Business,
you don't need this, you already have the Cheesecake for this. And on a more
serious note, having twins is more a luck of the draw rather than your super
dooper fertility. Fertility has nothing to do with twins except that it is 
needed for conception. After conception, fertility has nothing to do with
anything and twins occur after conception. Wiki Twins for more info. 

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[10.10] Grilled Cheese Benefits

Benefit #1 - Bottomless Stomach

"The cheeseatarian lifestyle is currently not endorsed by any of the medical
 or nutritional advisory boards, and it's not hard to see why. However, for 
 someone who two major food groups are cheese and buttery bread, you manage
 to keep your figure remarkably trim. You gain fatness points from foods 
 much slower than normal sims. "

This basically means, if you eat more food, or excess food when your hunger
bar is already filled, you will get fatter, and this benefit will make that
the excess food will make you fatter slower. Useful to a point, but then 
again, this is the grilled cheese aspiration, and food is the key. This 
applies to all food, not just Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. What kind of 
bottomless stomach only accepts grilled cheese?

Benefit #2 - Slower Need Decay - Bladder

"You seem to spend every waking hour putting grilled cheese into your face.
 Where does it all go? Actually don't answer that. You seem to have a giant
 bladder, or just a special talent at ignoring the call of nature."

Well, this is one of the better need decay benefits since it is devoted just
to bladder. This means that you need to go to the toilet less often, and 
that is obviously a good thing since it is the quickly one to drop and is
often dropping at double the rate of other motives, and any stop to it would
be appreciated. Now, you can drink more high quality nectars, but don't do
the booze, it isn't good for your health.

Benefit #3 - Paint Grilled Cheese

"A little-known and possibly true fact is that the first cave paintings 
 ever discovered depicted ancient Sims making and eating grilled cheese
 sandwiches. Turophiles throughout the ages have upheld this glorious
 tradition with such masterworks as The Gouda Lisa and The Swiss-tine
 Chapel. You can create your own foray into the genre by using any
 easel."

Well, do you really want to paint a portrait of a grilled cheese sandwich?
You can do so, and make some money out of it provided that you have some
creativity points to make a decent job out of it. Place it on your wall
and let it be a reminder to the almighty Grilled Cheese. Apparently, they
sell for more than your normal paintings. Still, it is rather funny to
witness.

Benefit #4 - Conjure Grilled Cheese

"Using a secret technique handed down through the ages, you are able to
 focus the mysteriously cheesy energies of the Milky Way and manifest
 them as a perfectly toasted sandwich. This self interaction will create a
 snack to fill your belly, but all that magical concentration tends to be
 draining when it comes to comfort and energy."

This is desperation at the very least. Only when you are really in need
for food should you do this because it really does put a strain on your
comfort and energy and those take time to refill, while energy can be 
easily fixed up. Therefore, this is the extreme of the extreme, and only
use it if you are either bored, or need food. Still, I must know how they do
that, I mean, how can you make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich out of thing air. 
You'd need like bread, cheese and a toaster. 

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[10.11] Secondary Aspirations

Benefit #1 - Choose a Secondary Aspiration

"Not every Sim is satisfied to spend their life in pursuit of a single goal.
 By choosing a secondary aspiration, you can unlock some of that aspiration's
 benefits. You will also begin to receive wants that were previously 
 restricted to Sims of that aspiration."

This is a handy benefit. This allows you to access the first three benefits
of any other aspiration that is not delegated as your Primary Aspiration.
Although you can't access the best of the best, you can get some pretty nifty
benefits as well as your original benefits that are gained from your primary
aspiration. Pretty cool eh?

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