Is jewelmagus still a worthwhile way of making money?

and its for the very reason i never got myself into serious exomaging. some people dont mind but the rate at which a success on expensive exomage is like the rate of jackpot at a casino, i hate that place. i honestly believe i can save the money and make do with what i have than tossing them away at luck even if the potential profit is huge. luck...paah! i dont believe in luck.

i play just 1 character, and it took me years to level my tailor, jeweller, and shoemaker now all 100 including their magus. i once thought these awesome harder professions (compared to farmer/baker/alchemist) would one day reap in lots and lots of fat cash if i just persevere. then from experience and what i heard some "wisemen" once said, "professions are there for you to save money not earn money. " I thought he was quite true, since ever since i got my trio professions maxed out, all the hats, capes, amulets, rings, shoes, and belts i wear or want to wear i make them myself. the resources needed are often cheaper altogether than buying the actual item on the market made by someone else and some resources can be self-farmed.

i guess its different if you run your own team of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 characters you could just gather the resources you need all by yourself and professions can become a cash maker if you keep working at making and maging then selling.

i know a lot of people say you need money to make money, i guess thats the source of my problem. I run alone with maxed out professions that usually only someone in a team would have use for, and im broken all the time. I never learned the trades and been always financially difficult since my first day. even with fortunes door open in front of me now (all my maxed out professions) i just dont know how to walk through it. I guess after all the pain i went through to level my professions, i am no longer interested in getting more pain of working with them.

sorry if my post doesn't actually answer your thread but i thought its the only place right to post and i just wanted to write it down.

if you honestly tried you'd find you have a vast empire ready to be built.
Step one: buy bad equip from market
Step two: overmage
Step three:resell for profit

If you want to exomage things and you arent sitting on a throne id say wait till you have kamas to lose.
with this simple step process you can get rich.and if you think hard enough you can even expand it...
Farm/buy resources
Make item
Mage item
Sell item

BAM now just go learn what a kama is worth.

-Enutwof