Gathering professions are the way to go, and don't build your other professions at the start. Even if you live in instances, you should have built up a good base of money for bags before you hit that point. Admittedly, means you have to actually run to nodes to harvest them, which can slow you down as you're levelling up to the teens.

I restart quite often, as I have friends all over the place. Usually, by the time I even reach the auction house to be able to buy anything, I have a pretty good chunk of change.

But yeah, you feel it certainly.