Best way to get cross-craft mats?

[ChameleonMS]

Having a full time job during the week, I find myself having decent spare time to devote to the game.... but not really enough to level up every single crafting class.

Add small kids to the equation and you are exactly where I am. The best advise is to pack your patience. It took me 10 months to achieve 50 all DoH, plus Botany and Mining. For long stretches of time I was limited less then 10 hours per week. I leveled them all pretty much in a wave together because of all the cross class crafting material requirements.

As for earning XP faster:
Eat food, you can gather (lv5 nodes) or purchase (8 gil) La Noscean Oranges, from the get go. +3% XP (every little bit helps save time).
Always rest in Sanctuary, when rested you get +50% XP bonus.
Do the Ixial beast tribe story line, the xp rewards are pretty much equivalent to a free level quest.