Science & Industry

http://eveboard.com/pilot/Kate_Cox

these are the skill i have right now, I can train more if need be but I'd like to get into manufacturing but I have no idea where to start. Anyone mind teaching me how to flip a profit and I'll pay you a cut too?

Use this website (Type in blue print names in field in bottom right, adjust sliders as needed) - will give an output of profit/hr
based on typ region input prices, and typ sell values (always verify actual prices jive with the field inputs).
https://www.fuzzwork.co.uk/blueprint/?typeid=605

This has all the prices for everything
https://eve-central.com/

Find some T2 products to make, and then produce them, it's better if you can self-harvest the PI materials yourself, and then route them into the production streem.
http://www.eve-cost.eu/invention

acquire materials at below market rate, make something, sell products at or above market rates - Jita is a typical baseline, and then hubs further away command higher prices....

your skills are irrelevant, until you have the basics down, then they allow you to do things cheaper, faster, and easier...
...but at least you are mapped into Intel/Mem.

and don't spend all your time mfgring, or you'll go cross-eyed

My 2 cents, as an Indy as well there are things that sell and there are the other things.if your getting into it for profit it is harder then ever to turn a profit as many times the asking price is mostly a break even for materials but doesn't account for time and other investments.

This being said, I mostly build for myself but sell quite a lot of tech 2 bpc's but also tech 2 strip miners, drones, and have managed to make ISK off of advanced destroyers.

I've found that having a broad range of skills keep the ability to make more profit better, skills such as the ability to fly every ship I can from every race, I search the contracts, find a ship in region X and buyers are buying for X amount in another to make a few million off it, so the ability to fly most of the ships in eve has help bring in ISK, there are a lot of people clearing hangers of ships all the time.

PI skills, the ability to produce tier products has kept me from getting ripped off from some of the ridiculous many times outrageous prices for T-2 builds that requires planetary material, there are reasonable prices for base products from PI but that requires foot work and a willingness to make many jumps to get them.

Cloaky ships are your friends, buying bulk stuff is cool, getting it back to your honeycomb hideout, this requires the ability to hide from others who want your lucky charms, so being able to fly a blockade runner is definitely a must have skill if you buy enough stuff because of builds, if you are going to do a bit of fly and buy cloaky is your friend.