Kudos to Axehilt for the helpful info.
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The reason you can't put out 4 totems is because at level 20 you will have only aquired your Earth, Fire, and Water totems. The quest for your Air totem isn't recieved until you make it to level 30. Nice thing about it is that you don't have a long quest chain to get it, unlike your other totems.
Pick up the quest for it from your class trainer when you reach 30.
In addition to what Axehilt put out, try to pick up quests that have you kill a lot of creeps to achieve your quest objective, such as quests where you have to kill a certain number of mobs, or pick up a number of a certain item dropped by a specific mob. Those are the best quests to pick up because they allow you to kill for exp and turn-in for exp when you've completed 4 or five of these quests.
As far as getting money goes, you want to have two gathering professions to help bring in a little extra cash. I find that mining is an excellent profession to have in early levels because it pairs with a lot of crafting professions very well. As a result, lower mined ores like copper and bronze are in very high demand on the auction house right now. One stack of copper ore (not even smelted copper) can get you 1 gold alone. Goldshire is a great place to mine copper to your heart's content. If you're horde, I believe Barrens and Durotar should have plenty of copper ore to be found. Yeah, it takes time to skill up mining and you have to actually go out and search for veins and deposits, but, if you're not the lazy type, it pays off. Search to your heart's desire and sell what you find on the AH. Always match Auction House prices or undercut slightly if there's a lot of that item there.
Now, for your second gathering profession, it's up to you. Skinning is excellent for you since you can often skin things while you grind mobs or do quests. They're right there waiting to be skinned, why not oblige? Of course, you already knew that since you say that you're skinning in the Barrens. :)
Edited, Apr 14th 2008 11:30pm by Amorei