Career City
Don't read about a job.
Turn up and do it.
Every shift here is the real decision at the heart of the job — who to treat first, what order to do it in, who to send. Finish a shift and you keep the wage, the stars and the career card.
Health Science
3 careersKeeping people alive, mending them, and knowing who needs you first.
Paramedic
Sort it, under pressure
You get to people on the worst day of their life, work out who needs help first, and keep them alive on the way to hospital.
Surgical Nurse
Right steps, right order
You set up the operating theatre, hand the surgeon every instrument before they ask, and count every single item in and out again.
Pharmacist
Keep people moving
You are the last person who can catch a mistake before a medicine reaches someone — and quite often you are the one who catches it.
Hospitality & Tourism
3 careersFeeding people, housing them, and making a stranger's day work.
Chef
Right steps, right order
You spend the afternoon getting ready for two hours of chaos, and how well you prepared decides whether those two hours are cooking or panic.
Barista
Keep people moving
You make drinks that need to be right and fast at the same time, for a queue that can see exactly how long you are taking.
Hotel Housekeeper
Sort it, under pressure
You turn fourteen used rooms back into rooms that look like nobody has ever been in them, in an order that has to be exactly right.
Law & Public Safety
3 careersThe people who run towards the thing everyone else runs from.
Firefighter
Sort it, under pressure
You arrive at something dangerous with one crew and a few minutes, and you decide the order things get done in — because the order is what decides who gets out.
Emergency Dispatcher
Keep people moving
You answer the phone on the worst day of a stranger's life, work out what is actually happening, and get the right help moving — usually in under a minute.
Forensic Technician
Right steps, right order
You record a room exactly as it was found and collect what is in it, in an order strict enough that a court will believe you years later.
Being built next
Thirteen more clusters, plus the two districts where the money you earn actually goes somewhere.
🏪 Founder's Row
Spend your wages on a stall, then a shop, then a company — and find out that the job you just did is somebody's cost. Eight legal forms, twelve industries, and a business that can fail.
🏠 Home Base
The life skills that are not a career: a shopping list against a budget, a week of time you can run out of, and how to say the difficult thing well.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Life Skills World?
- A free game where children work a shift at a real job instead of reading about it. Each shift is the actual core decision of that career — sorting patients as a paramedic, scrubbing in as a surgical nurse, running a queue as a pharmacist.
- What age is it for?
- Roughly ages 7–16. Every career sets its own level of play, and the same shift runs untimed with visible hints for younger children and timed without them for older ones.
- Does it cost anything or need an account?
- No. It is free, there is no sign-up, and the collection of career cards is stored in your own browser rather than on our servers.
- How does it teach a career path?
- Every career card carries the honest route in: what you start with at school, what training it needs, how long it takes, and the actual first job title — not the dream one.