By Ragnarok.Tdizzle 2017-06-26 13:32:47
Depends on what your goals are. The struggle is real for someone with few and/or not end game geared jobs who also only have access to a single character. Thief, unfortunately is probably one of the least wanted jobs in the game (I was a thief main for the longest time forever ago).
Thankfully, you can do a lot with trusts these days, just not the current end game meta. You can clear a lot of T1 NMs in all escha/reisen zones though.
I know you asked for LS advice so here's mine to get you started: there is a community one called international globe (I think that's what it's called) that you can just grab a pearl by talking to the ls community person and they've got a ton of people that could just be what you're looking for. Outside of that, it'll be tough without knowing folks personally, maybe join some shouts and make friends and get invited the old fashioned way before we had all these cool social tools like we do now.
Wall of text incoming. None of this should surprise you as the game really hasn't changed since 2004 other than new jobs and different metas.
As far as jobs, whm is a much needed job so if you gear that up you could be good to go (bonus points if you rock a yagrush). Geo is pretty easy to, but more and more are liking idris geos at this point in the game for high end stuff. Brd is making a come back. Scholar is popular in certain situations too. Pld is almost necessary for most things (aegis is a must for most things, ochain too for some). Run is pretty useful too. You see where i'm going... Support/tanks are the way to go if you want to be of the most use, given almost everyone had a super geared DD already (hi2u wars, sams, and blus) and unless you're rocking a REMA with good gear to back it up, you're not going to be 'wanted' on that job.