User blog comment:Redexx/Skyrim's many faults and upsides. **My take**/@comment-9766166-20121230030635/@comment-4057437-20121230042827

You left out Alchemy, one of the easiest and safest ways to make a lot of gold. One can even go from town to town, buy all the ingredients in their alchemy shop, use the Lab there to make potions on the spot and sell them to the shopkeeper for a profit. By the time you have completed a round, the shops will have respawned their inventorries and the round can be repeated.

You will soon be making more potions than the Alchemist can buy and have to sell them to general merchants as well. We routinely finance our characters' activities that way, both in Skyrim and in Oblivion (just carry your gear around).