Can't decide on Trade Skills? Try Skinning.Follow

If you're having trouble picking out your Trade Skills, the best choice to start out is Skinning. Even if you're not a Leathercrafter, Skinning is one of the easiest and fast-cash building Trade Skills in the game. More than half the monsters you fight can be skinned as well as many Critters like Sheep for Wool. With Skinning you can also harvest off monsters killed by another player, as long as they looted everything off it. Now for courtesy, don't skin a mob if the person who made the kill is also a Skinner.

Skins are used well in both Leathercrafting and Tailoring, if either of your skills are these then the more the better for you. Even if you have another one such as Engineering or Enchanting, Skinning will provide you with the cash you need, whether selling your skins to NPC's or other players. Infact, its not uncommon for a spellcaster to start with Tailoring/Skinning combination instead of Tailoring/Enchanting so you would have two lucractive trade skills. You can remove Skinning at a later time then pick another when you have made your cash flow.

Make sure you have deleted the unwanted Skill first, simply by opening your Skills tab and hitting the cancel button to the right of it. Second, talk to a Starting or Journeyman Trainer, the Advanced and Experts will ignore you until you've reached a determined level. Once you have started the skill, make sure you buy a Skinning Knife, you don't need to equip it just keep it in your Inventory is fine.