One thing I'd advise everyone in the game to do is to start thinking of a long-term money-making strategy early on. You're always going to need gil to upgrade your armor, scrolls, or just for food, and it sucks when you're really on a roll getting XP, and then you suddenly find yourself with terrible armor, or without that life-or-death scroll, or without enough gil for transportation. Find something that you can stand to do--whether it's crafting, or farming, or whatever--, because you're going to be doing a lot of it, and probably for a long time >< .