My favorite skills to work on are fishing, mining, excavation, and acrobatics. Fishing is a good way to get food and enchanted tools. Once you get your fishing level up high, you get some really neat stuff. Mining is self-explanatory, but sometimes i just feel like mining. Excavation can get really useful if you level it up a lot. You can eventually get diamond from dirt. Plus, i like the gunpowder from gravel. Acrobatics is a lot of fun to train if you go to the Acrobatics training course. Once you work on your acrobatics, you have a higher chance of *Rolling* and not taking fall damage. Also, if you hold shift while falling, you have a chance of a Graceful Landing.

Send your Jakeys wolves to battle (vs mobs or people) with a high Taming skill. They will be able to heal themselves, get less damage, and avoid fire/cactus/high falls.

Using seeds, be able to turn dirt to grass, cobble to mossy cobble, and stone brick into mossy stone brick with Herbalism's Green Thumb.

Retrieve arrows from any mob you kill with a bow with high levels of Archery.