Final Fantasy XI bonus jobs

Hey, I'm going to start an account on Final Fantasy XI soon and wanted to know what type of race I should go with and what jobs would be good.

Various options were running through my mind.

For one option, I thought of starting as a Taru White Mage till level 18, completing the subjob quest, and restarting as a Main Black mage Sub White Mage for the magic bonus. I think of this because I heard somewhere that the Tarutaru black mage was the biggest damage dealer in the game, as well as one of the weakest possible combinations, and that allured me for some reason. Is Taru black mage the biggest damage dealer, with its low strength and defense to balance out this asset?

Of course if I went that route, I would have no bonus job to look forward to, since at level 30 you can unlock bonus jobs and it sounds kinda fun to go for that.

So on another note, I was thinking of going with a human, as they are the most balanced and versatile race as far as classes go and more flexible with job choices. Of course, they have no outstanding strengths like the Taru with magic and the Galka with melee.

Classes like Red Mage, Paladin, Dark Knight might seem all right, be they always seemed like kind of a compromise to me, or a watered-down mix between various magic classes and melee classes that take so long to get basic spells and don't get the super awesome ones like the nonmixed classes get.

Also, what are the bonus classes like? Beastmaster controls the random monsters to fight for it, summoners summon pets, dragoons have a dragon pet, bards sing songs that have buffs, dark knight is a cross between Black mage and warrior, paladin is a cross between white mage and warrior, ranger shoots bow and arrows, the others I'm not so sure of.

Are there some race/class combinations you would definitely reccomend? Avoid?

I also get the jist that most jobs can be divided into a few main categories:

-Melee (Warrior, Thief, etc.)
-Mage (Black mage, White mage, etc.)
-Jobs with a pet (summoner, dragoon, etc.)
-Buff jobs (Bard, Dancer, etc.)
-Mixed (Red Mage, Scholar, etc.)

I really don't know where to begin and being a Taru BLK/WHT would be fun, but I think it'd be fun to go for a level 30 bonus job too and give me a goal to shoot for.

Any advise you could give would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Also, what's Corsair like?

When I first started FFXI, I started out with lvling WAR (Warrior) till lvl 16 then went on to lvl RDM (Red Mage) all the way to lvl 32. Once I did that, I went to get SMN (Summoner) and got that to 44 then obtained DRG (Dragoon) and still lvling it right now. Right now, its lvl 63. I got other jobs as well. Here are the jobs I got (Just the bonus jobs)

• Dragoon
• Samurai
• Summoner
• Dark Knight
• Bard
• Dancer
• Paladin
• Beastmaster
• Ranger
• Ninja
• Blue Mage
• Puppetmaster

I'm currently getting the remaining jobs and those are:

• Corsair
• Scholar