Can't made up my mind on something

Hi, just started playing nostalrius and this has been bugging me for a little while. I'm currently a lvl 16 human mage with 100 herbling and 56 alching, the thing is even after all the research i have done i'm still not sure if i should just drop alchemy and take skinning instead. I was initially thinking of leveling them both gradually as i was leveling myself.