Play as a laborer/worker mod?

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

I've always been for roleplay over powergaming so I was hoping I'd be able to find a suitable mod for this, one which allows me to play as a lower-class citizen and do jobs for nobles and such. I've tried my luck with Google, but it has let me down in my efforts to find such a mod. I'm hoping you guys could help me out a bit here.

[DrNewcenstein]

I think the Live Another Life mod lets you do that, but haven't tried it myself, so I don't know how immersive or varied the choices are.

At the very least, you can just go around chopping wood and mining ore and picking crops.

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

I think the Live Another Life mod lets you do that, but haven't tried it myself, so I don't know how immersive or varied the choices are.

At the very least, you can just go around chopping wood and mining ore and picking crops.

Thanks for the response, I've played around with LAL thoroughly but haven't managed to find a simple start. Instead being faced with backstories such as "Penniless drunk" (Which oddly enough starts you out with 250-ish gold) and "House owner", which might be more ideal for a more monetarily advantageous start. Unfortunate, being how popular it is, you'd think it'd have more options. :3

[Ankou]

New Beginnings adds a few more starts to LAL but it also doesn't really offer that sort of start.
Closest is a beggar, pilgrim, or traveling merchant. I am reasonably certain the beggar one starts you with nothing but rags in Riften but it's been a couple years since I tested it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4939

As for the actual jobs, I couldn't find any "work for someone else" quests either. On my current playthrough I used Missives to get started but at best you will be taking hunting/gathering quests to avoid the more adventurous ones.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17576

There are a few mods out there to start with extra low skills for RPing a peasant but I don't know if that is what you have in mind. I personally used Classic Classes and made a custom class with the sort of things a random villager might be decent at as my major skills rather than the ones I'd be using to adventure later on so they'd all be at 5.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11316

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

Originally posted by Ankou:

New Beginnings adds a few more starts to LAL but it also doesn't really offer that sort of start.
Closest is a beggar, pilgrim, or traveling merchant. I am reasonably certain the beggar one starts you with nothing but rags in Riften but it's been a couple years since I tested it.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4939

As for the actual jobs, I couldn't find any "work for someone else" quests either. On my current playthrough I used Missives to get started but at best you will be taking hunting/gathering quests to avoid the more adventurous ones.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17576

There are a few mods out there to start with extra low skills for RPing a peasant but I don't know if that is what you have in mind. I personally used Classic Classes and made a custom class with the sort of things a random villager might be decent at as my major skills rather than the ones I'd be using to adventure later on so they'd all be at 5.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/11316

My appreciation for the help. I guess nobody has made the kind of mod I'm looking for though. I was playing as a recreation of a certain argonian maid, so I was hoping there'd be a mod out there that'd allow me to work for people, etc. Thanks again for your help anyways.

[Caesar]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/7925
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/23020
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/15814
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/10820
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/7900
EDIT: I also suggest using "Campfire", "Frostfall", & "iNeed", for a more immersive experience;
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/667/
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/671
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/645/
Hope this helps.

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

To be fair, JoS's cook job looks like it would be the closest to what I'm interested in. Thanks for replying. ^

[Caesar]

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/17583
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/14216
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4108
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/4160
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2242
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/19018
Also I suggest using Skytweak, here's a guide on how to port it;
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/7yh03z/how_to_get_skytweak_to_work_with_sse/
And maybe thus one does help aswell;
https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/8sa3k2/farmer_build/

That's all I can really think of, as of right now.

[Longhaul]

On top of what Caesar has suggested...

I recently started playing a pure bard. Expanded Bards College mod. Allows you to play any of the instruments at the Inns for gold and free room for the night. Level up as a bard and you can then play for the different Jarl's. When not "barding" i am doing the odd jobs, chopping wood, collecting things.....

Pretty good and fun mod. All the animations are there for the instruments, lots of songs and you can import your own...

Become a Bard.
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/2303?tab=description

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

My apologies for not responding sooner. I personally think I'll just stick with Jobs of Skyrim whilst using a few idle animations such as sweeping to play into the maid roleplay. Thanks a bunch for your responses though.

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

Welp, never mind. It appears Jobs of Skyrim hands out unrealistic paychecks and the only idle mod I've been using seems to have broken. I guess I'm back to square one. ;-;

[UR ESTROGEN DEALER]

Kingdom Come Deliverance

[Noah]

Originally posted by BrockSamson:

Kingdom Come Deliverance

is the game actually fun?

[UR ESTROGEN DEALER]

Originally posted by No:

Originally posted by BrockSamson:

Kingdom Come Deliverance

is the game actually fun?

Yea, it's pretty fun, combat's hard to get used too

[Fuzzy Wuzzy]

Time to go back to using console commands to add gold I guess.

[Ankou]

Are you familiar with tools like xEdit (in this case, SSEEdit) or willing to learn to use it?

I've found when I have something specific in mind I often have to make my own patches for mods. Economy balance specifically, since paying out too much and charging too little is very common.

It isn't that hard to do little things like adjust the amount of gold a quest reward gives out or the value of an item. Though if it's using vanilla favor rewards for doing a job you might have to change more than you intend.