Seems to me anyone who chose a profession simply to make money and NOT to supplement their own character should have simply picked up two gathering skills to begin with.
I don't know a single smart alchemist that doesn't use their own potions for either themselves or their group's own benefit. If you just want to make money, don't even bother making potions, stick to selling mats instead and only making potions/elixers/transmutes on special order. You can farm a stack of Felweed and sell it for just as much as selling a stack of 5 or even 10 potions in a fraction of the time and receive 100% profit on the sale. People who actually use the mats are doing so for guild/raid purposes and will almost always have plenty more money than they have time to go farm. And the reason they'll buy the mats instead of just buying the already-made potion is because 1) their own discovery proc chance, and 2) their mastery.
In short, sell mats if all you want is money. In addition, be happy that you're not LOSING money by paying someone else to make potions for you when you actually want or need them.
I don't know a single smart alchemist that doesn't use their own potions for either themselves or their group's own benefit. If you just want to make money, don't even bother making potions, stick to selling mats instead and only making potions/elixers/transmutes on special order. You can farm a stack of Felweed and sell it for just as much as selling a stack of 5 or even 10 potions in a fraction of the time and receive 100% profit on the sale. People who actually use the mats are doing so for guild/raid purposes and will almost always have plenty more money than they have time to go farm. And the reason they'll buy the mats instead of just buying the already-made potion is because 1) their own discovery proc chance, and 2) their mastery.
In short, sell mats if all you want is money. In addition, be happy that you're not LOSING money by paying someone else to make potions for you when you actually want or need them.