Being Bahama

What’s the Best Trader Profession?

I’ve been asked which is the best trader profession a few times over the past week.  I find it an odd question.  I’m a tailor because fashion is my passion. I always assumed shipwrights enjoyed crafting spacecraft and weaponsmiths felt strongly about powerful weapons.  I guess it’s not always that way.

Which profession is ‘best’?  

First, I have to wonder why they think I’d remain a tailor if I didn’t personally feel it was ‘best’.    Then to answer their question I have to calculate what ’best’ means to them.  Turns out for some it’s how many credits they can bring in and for others it’s how easy it is to master. 

I suppose I can understand considering the potential profits. We all need to make a living.  But to be honest, if money were my only consideration, I wouldn’t be a tailor.  I make enough to take care of myself but I’m not rich.

I’ve only ever been a tailor and I went about mastering it the long way so I’m in no position to offer advice about the easiest profession to master.  In general, sewing isn’t difficult and I’m able to craft high quality goods from even the most mediocre materials so I guess in that respect, tailoring is ‘easy’.   But like any trader profession, you still need time to the learn the ins and outs of your particular craft.  You need to accumulate experience, factories, resources, schematics, vendors and a customer base.  There’s no magic formula for any of it.   There’s many paths to being happy and successful in a particular trade.

I’ve agreed to mentor and help some wannabe traders.  But I think the most valuable advice I can give is to follow your heart and make your own path to success.   That’s what makes a trade (and trader) the ‘best’.