You forgot that Anniversary Edition added fishing to Skyrim. It's definitely one of the fishing minigames of all time.

If honest work isn't worth it, then that's probably why there are so many bandits in Skyrim.

"Never did an honest day of work, didya lad?" Him: "Fuck you. Yes i did!"

One of the mods I installed the first time I played Skyrim was "infinite wood chopping" because I was too lazy to go on adventures. I left the PC on and let my character chopping wood infinitely, the next day I returned I was able to afford the Breezehome fully furnished. Such an honest work it was.

I once tried to do honest work in Riverwood, but accidentally hit a chicken while dicking around... Needless to say, I wasn't welcome there anymore. :'(

It wasn't about the journey, it was about the merchant we became along the way

That mudcrab who was just dodging all the arrows was in ultra instinct the entire time. That final sidestep was just to add the nail to the coffin.

I find selling npcs their own inventory a lot more profitable

‘The Enchanter” is a play style of honest work I’ve done before, and it’s actually pretty fun, and relatively profitable too. You just enchant weapons and armor (either from loot or bought from blacksmith) and then sell them

I always keep a hunter character in reserve for when I want to relax. It's not very lucrative, but satisfying to play. One of the most fun playthroughs I've had was with a non-fighting wandering alchemist. I only leveled speech and alchemy, hired some bodyguards, and eventually bought a home and started a family.

Black smithing is literally the best out of all (at higher levels). Purchase ingots, leather stripes and make an armor that values more than all of them combined

Hunting can be fun if you know magic. While the weak Nord hunter sneaks around, hides from bunnies like a scared little girl, and has to be wary of running out of arrows, the Chad spellcaster can cast fury on a deer and fistfight it to the death.

A rare instance where the direction is Art imitating life: Honest Work doesn't pay. This is why it was so easy for Brynjolf to say; "Never done an honest days work for all that coin you're carrying, ey lad/lass!"...Because you're carrying so much of it compared to an Honest Skyrim Worker.

Would be cool to actually make it into a challenge: *survive in Skyrim on an honest wage alone* You not only have to make money, but also spent it on food and shelter and see if so-called "honest work" is sustainable

There's actually a really cool mod called Hunterborn. It overhauls the entire hunting system and it can lead to a self contained playthrough.

First time playing Skyrim I chopped wood for hours to get better armour than realized the first dungeon I went into and killed a bandit I could get equipment way faster and more effectively 😂

apparently, being a housewife/house husband is extremely lucrative compared to everything else except alchemy

Being an enchanter + jewelry smith makes you fabulously wealthy.

What's more honest than cracking a couple of hundred bandit, and forsworn, and necromancer, and vampire skulls for the bounty? It's almost a public service!

That's exactly how I expected a briar heart versus wabbajac battle would go

Farming only worked for me once I got the Golden Hills farm from a CC content. Because once you plant blisterwort and wheat can earn you a very tidy sum once your workers harvest it. I think I was making over 2000 gold every few days. But for me without that content, selling firewood was the fastest way honestly to make gold.

wow, cool...

Honest working Rag to riches playthroughs are probably the best playthrough I have, add mods that improve said honest work and its bearable

My main money maker was alchemy. Fast travel between each shop, buy everything, make potions on site , sell everything to get back all the money they just made off you, stash the healing potions for later, repeat. I think I looped that skill tree like 5 times by the end...

Tip: Don't mine ore veins by attacking them. I mined a lot and I found that hitting the ore instead of entering the mining animation yields 10% less ore. Edit: Apparently everyone who ever played Skyrim has better RNG than me. Y'all aren't even bragging anymore, just mocking me for being less fortunate.

I came up with this whole backstory of my Dragonborn being a chef so she's pretty much just running around making soup the whole game

What about The Fisher? You can go around skyrim and fish at all the little places by the rivers and lakes. Then you sell your catches at a market!

I used to be an adventurer like you, then got sidetracked and forgot what the quest was.......want to become a dragon slayer?

The second I saw this I started thinking of my oblivion potion seller build...I sold potions...and that was pretty much it.

The lumberjack was always my go-to starting money farm method in almost every playthrough. It's very easy and generates infinite money from nothing. Also, it's the best way to farm arrows when combined with mining.

You have the miner but forgot the minor where you abuse your youth, cuteness and innocence to beg for money

Gosh, I love your humor. And I honestly spent my last run as a lumberjack. Only to buy the new added house outside of Whiterun. Yes, it costs 7500 gold and it took me a long while. In the end, I'm happy with. Also fishing is something I adore a lot more as anything else. To get enchanted gear or even strong gear without killing random bandits, is quite relaxing.

I usually combine some of those. You mine iron ore, transmute it into gold, then smith it into jewelry, enchant it, sell it to mages and merchants to buy some more soul gems and start over. Couple of days doing that and you have enough to buy any house completely furnished, plus is a great way to level up.

Alduin, the world eater, is terrorizing all of Skyrim and the Dragonborn is out picking flowers and catching blue fucking butterflies

Nothing like honest pay for honest work. Screw that time to explore the nearest dark and dangerous cave/ruin

Well, depends on which honest work pays the most. -Farmer: Anniversary Edition, Goldenhills Plantation, your own farmstead, that's a good way to generate plenty of money if you use the right plant. Believe it or not, simply plant nothing but Blisterwort in every soil and it'll generate at least 1100 gold PER DAY. (Not because of mushroom stereotypes, but Blisterwort is the basic ingredient for healing potions. So, with the war going on... yeah) -Cook: Nah, forget it. Only living to be made is simply keeping your hunger at bay if Survival Mode is on. Otherwise, no real profit to be made. -Lumberjack: I suppose find which NPC pays the most for firewood and just go from there. Waste of time, if you ask me. Gets repetitive. -Miner: I know that the mine by Narzulbur pays good money for Ebony Ore. Second is the Quicksilver mine in Dawnstar. Sure, you can do the cheesy Transmute idea, but where's the real gratification of honest prospecting in that? -Alchemist: Best that you fully master the perk tree until trying to make a market for selling self-made potions. Because, let's face it, this is another dead-end profession when it comes to trying to make quick gold. -Hunter: You'd be better off trying to hunt Bandits. Because Skyrim's wildlife is mostly just for the processing of leather. -Merchant: Well, ALL THE TIME you're a merchant. All that dungeon loot: enchanted equipment, gems, jewelry, always sell those off. But also make sure it's lightweight gear, such as mage robes, necklaces and rings. The more you can carry, the better the profit to be made. And of course, the one you missed, -Blacksmith: Perhaps craft high-end jewelry and sell that? No, don't get started with the Iron Dagger joke. Craft things that're worth more points.

bandit clearing and enchanting is kind of an honest work if you have the black star.

Dragonborn has some serious dragon size horns growing there, considering the fact that his wife has so much income while he is mostly absent. The clients must leave his vicinity really satisfied.

I think this would have been great to do on survival mode. That way you actually have to worry about eating, sleeping and finding shelter while trying to work like everyone else and make money. It would add a layer of complexity to it. Just a thought. Subscribed!

I made a decent living as a bartender in Fable

I don't know what it is about your editing style and scripting but it's just so entertaining to watch, keep it up Dude :D

There's a mod that adds a bunch of regular jobs to Skyrim just called Jobs of Skyrim which ads these as employable jobs and I always become a smith to earn gold while leveling up my smithing skills

Making cicero chop wood is a big power play

They don't show mining in Skyrim VR so you could stand next to a resource and click it to mine everything immediately. Or in the case of stone and clay, you can wait as it rapidly increases your stock of those resources. It's been a while since I've played it so it may have been patched.

This video was actually really cool! Great job

happy you did this my friend

Wake up babe, new cozy game dropped! (Playing Skyrim in survival mode but you only do odd jobs around the towns, live with your spouse and don't interact with any combat at all)

You know what's the best honest job in skyrim? Being a Skooma dealer.

I love the random guard glitch walking during the lumberjack section

Never realized that farming was less profitable than looting tombs of nobles who died millennia ago and selling their rare jewelry.

You deciding honest work in Skyrim is boring reminds me of one of the Discworld novels where one of the very old barbarian heroes says to his comrade "Remember the time when you stole a farm and said you were going to quit being a barbarian and raise pigs? You gave it up after - what - three hours, wasn't it?"

The *thunk* sound of hitting your target with a arrow will never not be satisfying

This dude has more jobs than Johnny Sins

the goldenhills plantation add-on with the anniversary edition streamlines farming so much and makes it actually profitable

I've never explored the pickpocket levelling before. Time to go back

thanks for the alchemy ideas

I loved that Mitten Squad could beat Skyrim with Torch Bashing by literally eating Vegetable Soup.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how long this would of taken

Just be a weapon merchant. Kleptomania and business can go hand in hand

You forget honest work makes you immune to vampires seduction.

Okay I know I'm late but I love your character he looks amazing

I love how you picked the unhinged Jester to be your Log chopping buddy

I've always wanted to be able to do smithing or enchanting services for the people of Skyrim. Once I was done with one of my characters, my headcanon ending for him was becoming a custom-order blacksmith in the forest near Riverwood

i’ve learned that if you quit mining a vein when you get ore, you’ll end up getting three ore before depleting the vein

I must say, I do remember using Honest Work legitimately in some of the more hardcore mods. Namely in Requiem, where it was by far the safest way to get the gold to buy your first real weapon and set of armor, and pay for enough skill training to not instantly run out of stamina as soon as you swung your weapon once.

The honest man with a Necromancer Amulet hahahaha

"Never done an honest day of work for all that coin you're carrying around 'eh lad?"

Building a house and working for my family hunting etc is my fav way to play Skyrim I’ve literally never beaten the game

working in the iron mine in dawnstar is like 120 gold a day, haven't finished the video so wonder if you use this job

There's also bounty hunting, which is doing the radiant quests to kill bandit leaders/giants and turning their bounties in with the Jarls/stewards of different holds. It is a legally recognized job, and thus, honest work.

There's also enchanting and fishing. Also the alchemy one is actually worth it, but only if you intend on doing the fortify restoration loop. You can actually make potions worth more than any npc can have on them.

Farming can be done passively with anniversary edition. Someone else also made a good point about fishing. You can also sorta pull off a mercenary with the companions. While limited, you can even go as far as errand boy.

"cozy little profit" *proceeds to give her husband 1000 gold*

Alchemy is my favorite way to make money in Skyrim. At higher levels I make potions so expensive a single one can wipe out a merchant's entire budget.

You forgot to mention something about mining... 1. You can instead of using the pickaxe like you normally do, you can just whack the ore vein with it. 2. Now here's where things get interesting: If you equip the pickaxe in the RIGHT hand instead of the LEFT hand, go into 3rd person, and strafe back and forth repeatedly as fast as you can while you hammer that left hand button, you can mine ore even faster. Because sometimes it glitches, causing the strike to hit twice or even thrice instead of just once. Sometimes. 3. You can combo this with the shout that increases your weapon speed for even more shenanigans.

Its not as fun as working in the Fable series! Great video!

It's funny how much faster you mine without actually using the mining emote. Espescially dual wielding

I remember buying the house in whiterun chopping wood the first time i played skyrim

Anniversary edition quite changes a good bit of this, for example you can own a farm and be a farmer that way (when finished it gives quite a bit of money based on what you have planted)

Then there is my fallen hero altmer who just breaks into peoples houses at night while invisible and muffled and steals their stuff 😂

hunting gives me absolutely unreasonable quantities of brain-reward-juice.

Nah man. Just go to the giant ebony mine the Orcs control, and get all of that delicious ore. Wait 30 days, and get right back to mining.

Holy crap the editing here is impeccable

explore dwemer ruins to get metal. Command your companion to chop logs, make an infinity of Dwemer arrows. Honest work as an arrow maker

I remember playing Skyrim with my older brother, and the silver people kept cutting his head off and he was getting so pissed

The golden hills plantation is honest farming work that actually makes pretty good money, and you can actually interact with your animals

Missed oportunity to put a breaking bad joke at the "cooking" section.

I can't believe he gave alchemy a 9/10. Even with the Merchant perk, I make stacks of potions worth more than all the combined gold of every merchant in several towns. One run through bleak falls barrow, sell the junk, and that's enough money to start alchemy through buying ingredients. After that, repeat fast travelling runs through all major cities until you get max alchemy and at least 50 speech. The profit from alchemy can fund every other thing you might want to do.

I thought he was going to do the alchemy glitch and completely break the game. Definitely the best Skyrim profession

"Let's kill someone! :D" I love Cicero sm

The best honest job in Skyrim is being married and the wife runs a shop.

The best part of the alchemist is that as you make more potions and improve your skill level, the potions you make become more valuable. Which is incidentally how alchemy levels: eating weird plants you find on the ground or making potions (skill experience is based on the value of the potion created, poisons are generally more expensive).

"Not even a challenge." Is knocked to 1 HP twice.

I used to do honest work like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

"Is honest work worth doing? No!" Huh, just like real life. Good job Todd Howard.

The Dragonborn after saving the world four or five times over, slaying everything there is to slay, realizing he put himself out of business and maybe shouldn’t have bought all those investment properties on credit:

Your character looks like he might have once been a member of the Misfits. 🤘

Woodcutting is how I make my 3k gold for training every new run

I was employed as a thief for a local guild. We had quotas, it’s was all above board. The rich would pay an annual fee and arrange for a convenient time to be robbed. The poor would just be asked in the street for a donation and given a promise to not be visited again for 3 days. We sold merchandise and you could even buy what we called “shadowmarks. “ for the premium package we could guarantee no theft would happen to you or your home. It massively reduced crime as unsanctioned thieving was not permitted and usually ended in execution. The taxes collected from this operation allowed the city to prosper immensely. We even created new work sectors like insurance companies.

The gigachad honest man build