So if we were to rank the DPS in terms of how sought they are...

Starting with most to least?

Are we looking at something like:

Bard
Ninja
Summoner
Dragoon
Machinist
Black Mage
Monk
Red Mage
Samurai

Or do I have this order all wrong?
I don't play DPS really - I play tanks and healers. But I've got 2 alts I've been working on "on the side"... and this thread is basically telling me my Job picks are going to lock them out of raiding (Monk and Red Mage - they were Ninja and Bard but I switched recently for the animations of monk and because I found myself doing 1/3rd the DPS of even other Bards with Bard and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong, while om red mage I can beat other red mages by 10-100% - all of this in leveling content though).

But I am curious if that's correct, and what the general take is.