How to become a brain surgeon in BitLife

Prepare to put in the work.

Characters graduating in BitLife.
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You can pursue just about any profession you can think of in BitLife, but some of them are a lot tougher to get than others. Becoming a brain surgeon is one of the trickiest tasks you can attempt in BitLife.

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If you successfully become a brain surgeon, you’ll be earning a solid amount of money and have a steady profession to work through, which makes it much easier to complete other tasks. Here’s how to become a brain surgeon in BitLife.

How to be a brain surgeon in BitLife

The brain surgeon job in BitLife.
It’s a tough job to get. Screenshot by Dot Esports

To become a brain surgeon in BitLife, you need to select the brain surgeon position from the available full-time job listings after you’ve attended medical school. The professions that appear are random, which means this position can appear at any point for you to apply to. But to actually get the job, you have to have the right qualifications.

The entire path to becoming a brain surgeon looks different for every character you play depending on the choices you make, but the key steps you need to follow are:

  • Do your best to get high grades throughout primary and secondary school.
  • Try to keep your Smarts statistics as high as possible and actively work to improve them. You can study for school, read books, visit the library, and perform other similar tasks to build this Statistic.
  • Attend university as soon as you can and apply for a Chemistry or Biology degree.
  • Apply to medical school and play through it.
  • Find another job in the medical field and work there for a few years to get experience.
  • Look for the brain surgeon profession and apply to become one. If you’re not accepted, keep working at a medical job and reapply as often as you can.
Medical school marked in BitLife.
Medical school is crucial if you want to become a brain surgeon. Screenshot by Dot Esports

BitLife always has different types of unique challenges you can tackle and many of them involve trying to achieve specific goals like joining certain professions. Since you know how to become a brain surgeon now, any task that calls for this job will be a lot easier to finish.

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Kacee Fay
Staff Writer at Dot Esports covering new releases and a wide array of topics including Minecraft, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Phasmophobia, general gaming, streaming, and more. She has been avidly writing and gaming her whole life and now spends her time combining the two. Kacee graduated from San Diego State University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Certificate in Creative Editing and Publishing. She then joined Dot Esports as a Freelance Writer in 2022 before transitioning to a Staff Writer in 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys buying more books than she can read, gaming alone or with friends, drinking too much tea, attending concerts, fangirling over movies and television, listening to music, and spending time with her family, friends, and pets, who are the most important parts of her world.