I have played this game on and off since launch. Came back a couple months ago got all the jobs to 50. Now I see gear on the AH is prohibitively expensive. I made about 3 million gil leveling all my battle classes to 50 from leves and stuff. I see 3 million isn't enough to buy anything worthwhile.

I see materia that cost about 1-2m each for good ones. Gear that has materia going for over 20m or so.

My question is how exactly do you make any money in this game? I didn't play when leves gave out tons of gil so I don't really have much.