Did your race help determine your job ?

Or vice-versa ?

Not paying attention to the stats when I first started playing the game( I had no idea what they were for at the time) I just chose Hyur, Highlander. Now they are good for the job I was playing atm (Dragoon) I slowly started to drift towards being a healer.

I then dabbled into making a new character but then decided against it (time reasons) then noticed the stats of different races..... I then switched from Hyur to Miqote due to their +3 MND and +2 PIE over Hyur.

I was wondering if anyone else took this big step in what in reality is a very minimal gain but for some reason I felt I needed to as I 'wasn't maxing out my potential.

I miss my Hyur tho....

No. I picked a midlander originally because I wanted a "traditional FF healer". So basically a pretty girl/female protagonist type character. For reasons.

I then got bored of her lack of hairstyles, and I didn't really grow to like what she looked like over all, so I changed my race. I thought I was going to change to something completely different, but highlander just spoke to me for some reason. Now I have a pretty, tall, badass WHM who also has not boring hair.

I don't want to be a Miqo'te. Call me racist, Iunno. They actually appeal to me the least.

Not really i just picked the race i liked the look and lore of the most. I did make her look small and scrawny since i wanted her to be a Healer and i always see those kind of characters as weak looking since they are the squishyist.

Nope. I just said, "OMFGKITTIES" and bam. Done.

I started off as monk because I thought it seemed cool, but ended up as my (at the time) 3 man FC's only healer... and stayed that way.
I think my personality determined my job main, rather than the character race (or vice-versa)

Nope.

<-----just loves cats. :D

Nope, not even in 1.0. Been the same ever since lol.

http://img2.finalfantasyxiv.com/f/54...ffc0_50x50.jpg: Nope. I just wanted to be male "human". I like what he looks like and don't think I'll be changing anytime soon.

(From now on when I post I'll post with a pic of my character, that way everyone can tell I'm not the player who posted earlier/same as the character shown as "main")

Not really, I've been the cat race since XI where the differences in stats from one race to the next were even larger. I think mithra had more to do with dex and tarus (the lala race) had much better Mage stats, but at the time I was literally like, "KITTIESS!!!", and like someone else said above, chose a cat girl based on that. Was whm main for years. When I started XIV, I'd been a kitty for so long it just felt weird considering anything different.

Kinda...
I wanted a 'gentle giant' sort of character.
Goofy, friendly and freakishly large hands.

Though I'm regretting it every other patch due to healing robes looking awful on Roegadyns.
God bless glamours!

Nope. In 1.XX I settled as a Hyur Midlander after playing around with several races and looks, but I didn't get very far in 1.XX.

In ARR I started as a male Miqo'te solely to be a different race than my brother (started new character on new server because he and our friends couldn't jump onto a legacy server, and even if the server transfer system was up at that point legacy players couldn't move to non-legacy servers until a while after launch). Then I grew tired of certain animations, their hands, and cat like behavior, Used my 2nd free fantasia to change into Midlander (1st used to change miqo'te look).

I did choose a certain race in FFXI though. I went Hume to avoid all potential backlash for certain race/job combinations.