I know that grinding early on in ff6 is a no-no, due to being able to get more stat boosts later with the Espers equipped, but I'm curious: you can tape down an autofire button on the Lethe River's (up) (left) choice, and grind some levels there. If you do this for long enough, you end up quite stocked up on gil as well.

You ever do this?

I don't like to; it doesn't include Locke, so Locke spends the next part of the game trailing everyone in level, which just seems weird to me.