How to make money?!

[SinfulExistence]

Keeping your retainer ventures churning will at least ensure you have money for teleports and repairs. The 18h ones give you Allagan pieces to convert to gil, quick ventures sometimes give nice items to sell.

Another player mentioned maps, which goes hand in hand with gathering. And glamor prisms. It's a bit of initial work to get gathering and crafting classes up but once there, maps, glamors, and selling low level gear (like the others suggested) can easily keep you in the 2-3 mil range.

Can you recommend any gathering or crafting classes? Literally have no idea where to start in regards to this!

[Risvertasashi]

Can you recommend any gathering or crafting classes? Literally have no idea where to start in regards to this!

Crafting is a bit tricky as cross-class skills mean that, to do serious crafting, you pretty much need at least a few at 50 and all of them up at least somewhat. To make your own materials start to finish, you'd want them all to 50 (and eventually 60). Glamor prisms are also spread across them.

All that said. GSM is nice. It has items both pre-50 and endgame that sell well.

As far as gatherers go... Fishing destroys the soul. (On the other hand, some people love it, somehow...). If you level miner and botany (or even fishing) in parallel, you can share all gear except the weapon.

[Werhusky]

Can you recommend any gathering or crafting classes? Literally have no idea where to start in regards to this!

Gathering is either actively do something on botanist/miner or afk fishing - if you have a controller use the vibration function to know when you got something hooked... between that watch a film/read a book/do phonecalls? For botany and mining you need to move from node to node and actively work on it. Fishing can be decent money if you use right baits for certain fishes that sell good (Silver Sharks; Hammerheads always sell but check xivdb.com if used in any recipies and your MB if worth to catch em en masse for each fish).

[Niwashi]

Can you recommend any gathering or crafting classes? Literally have no idea where to start in regards to this!

If a lot of your expenses come from buying glamours and you'd like to start making some of them yourself, Weaver, Leatherworker and Armourer are good for that. They also combine well for providing materials to each other. But as Risvertasashi mentioned, to do a lot of the high-end crafting, you'd eventually want all of them for cross-class skills.