Jobs and Companies

Two systems: city jobs (Army, Grocer, Casino, Medical, Education, Law) and player companies (director-run, stars, job points, specials). Almost always you want a player company for the perks. City jobs are for a few unlocks and merits later.

For employees first: placeholder job → understand JP/stars → pick a company → apply. Directing is a short later note. Hiring list: Company finder.

Starter jobs need a short interview (three questions). First hire in a starter job gives 5 JP for that job. Passive specials often stay after you leave. Inactive 400 days and you get fired.

• Army / Casino / Grocer - fine on day zero while you hunt a company. Mostly skip long-term except the Affronted honor (offend all interviewers) if you care.
• Medical - ladder toward reviving. Do this when you want that unlock; it is the big city-job reason.
• Education / Law - specific passives and merits. Come back when you need them.

City wages and low-star company pay are weak next to travel after 15. You are here for specials and unlocks.

In a player company, daily trains and job points scale with stars: roughly 1 JP and 1 train per star per day (7★ ≈ 7 JP). Stars come from customers, income, company age, and how you compare to other companies of that type. Higher stars = better specials and harder hiring bars.

Manual / Intelligence / Endurance live on your home page. Meeting a position's requirement is about +90 work-stat effectiveness; each doubling of the required stats adds about +5, toward +100+. Directors care because effectiveness drives company income.

Day-zero stats can still get into many 1★-7★ Sweet Shops, Adult Novelties, Flower Shops, Property Brokers, Firework Stands, and similar. Popular 10★ types want much higher work stats. Oil Rigs / Fitness Centers are not day-one applications. Wiki: Working Stats.

Pick the special for what you are doing now (funding a PI rental, travel capacity, gym, education). Check the live company page for current perk text.

Under 15: pick something that funds a PI rental or helps travel (AN, Flower, Toy). After 15: match the special to flying / gym / education.

Once work stats and activity are solid, directors of higher-star or more contested types become realistic. Still verify specials live.

1. Pick a type from this page (or Company finder).
2. Start at 10★ listings and work down. Messaging directly can help your chances and help you get familiar with how that company operates.
3. Include work stats, how long you plan to stay, that you will log in daily, and that you will keep addiction in check.
4. Ask: trains, drug / inactivity efficiency rules, salary or tax, anything else required.
5. If you leave, many directors prefer Monday so the weekly report is clean; say so if you mean it.

Buying trains with cash is optional; only with surplus. Prices swing hard by type and star.

Directing is a mid/late project: newspaper → job listing → company type → start company (or buy one). Business education and stocks (TCP sales, TGP ads) make high stars much easier.

1. Take a placeholder city job on day zero.
2. Apply to a player company whose special matches your stage; verify specials in-game.
3. Ask salary/tax, trains, and activity rules before you accept.
4. Work daily for JP; move up when work stats allow.
5. Skip directing until travel and education are humming.

• VYNICAL - Which company should I join?
• DrVoid - Employees' Guide to Companies
• Job wiki
• Company wiki