Lv 25 and NO professions!Follow

Back when I first started playing wow, I made a tauren druid and got him to level 24 before dropping him. Now, many many months later I've decided to come back to this character and start leveling up a druid again. However, after getting him up to 25, I realized that I had no source of income. Well, I do have skinning at 150 and enchanting at like 20, but my point is neither will get me any money. So, what should I do? Drop them and pick up mining? I hate having to start a new profession at this level because with will mean a lot of farming to get up mining and whatever else I pick up. At first I thought I should make a new druid, but that seems stupid. So what should I do? Should I just start farming like crazy, and if so, what professions should I pick up that will a. get me some money fast, and b. won't be a pain in the *** to level up?

Excuse me? Whatever gave you the (wrong-headed) idea that you can't make money from those two professions? As long as you treat enchanting as a gathering profession, you'll make money. Lots and lots of money. Disenchanting is the most lucrative trade skill in the game. Skinning provides a steady source of income - it substitutes quantity for quality - individual prices aren't much, but you can gather and sell a LOT of leather.

i bought my epic flying mount with disenchanting and skinning. then i bought everything to get 375 tailoring (dropping skinning, of course)

disenchanting is #1 profitable profession

skinning is easiest gatherings profession

You can definitely make income with those professions, but it can be time consuming and difficult at your level. You will have to skin and skin and skin, and really, mining is way more profitable. If you want mining, it won't take any effort at all to level it at 25. If you have a few gold, just buy as much Copper Ore (NOT Bars) as you can and smelt it, to gain a few levels. Then sell the Copper Bars you made, and use the money you gain to buy more Ore and repeat until you are skilled enough to mine tin and iron, and then just start mining all the crap around you. Or you could just go around The Barrens mining, or maybe Durotar. There's a LOT of copper around Durotar. Not sure about Mulgore, my sole Tauren is a skinner / leatherworker (slow cash flow, I'm at level 31 with a little under 50 gold; but I spend pretty frequently and I really haven't TRIED to gain gold that much, I got most of mine making Deviate Scale Belts and selling them).

As for Enchanting, you can disenchant all the greens and stuff you come across (also all bind on pick-up blues you don't want, but it's probably more profitable to sell bind on equip blues as they are) through drops and quest rewards and possibly purchases on the AH. Sell everything you get out of it.

Personally, I've never used Enchanting as a gathering profession, so I don't know what kind of money I could get through it. My priest is a chanter, but I use all the enchanting mats I get through disenchanting to level enchanting, already at like 170 enchanting at level 21).