How to earn money as a beginner ?

[u/Duke_of_Moon]

I'm playing Skyrim for the 1st time. Watched some YT vids about how to earn gold.

I tried Alchemy but my potions were only worth 50 at Max. I don't want to search for specific ingredients at various places cuz that would be boring(ingredients I've gathered until now were used up in making potions)

I got the transmute spell from the bandits and made 10+ gold necklaces. But they sold for only 400(40 each) even tho It said 120 value 😭

And that also took a lot of time as I had to mine iron from camp, embershard mine and then turn it into.... Well u guys know.

I really want a house and a horse.(My own not stolen) Whiterun stable doesn't have a option for horse map( is that not available in Special Edition?)

Is there any interesting/fun way to earn money ? (Jarl only gave me 100 for a quest, so ig quests don't pay much)

Should I sell the dragon bones and scales for money?

Edit - Damn this sub is fast, 4 comments in 4 minutes

[u/MoonAttempt]

By that point you will be high level and gold will be useless anyway as you will have too much of it.

[u/402915 → u/MoonAttempt]

Fair enough now I'm just walking around buying homes left and right. I didn't even know the thieves guild had one until this playthrough.

[u/rob_ur_bitch → u/402915]

There’s a ton of new weapons, armor sets, houses, etc in the anniversary edition

[u/Baguette1066 → u/MoonAttempt]

It's fairly easy to get Smithing 100 before level 30 with transmute and dwarven smithing, and you'll likely only have a few thousand gold at this point (maybe lower if you buy everything from blacksmiths and make stuff with it to get your smithing that high).

[u/MoonAttempt → u/Baguette1066]

The context is that it was in comparison to Dragon Bones, which are just way easier to get and process.

Smithing is a good source of gold probably... but it is way easier to just sell the 3 Dragon Bones you get from each Dragon for 500 a pop.