Thank you everyone for your responses!
I will check on the Lamia forum for a FC and will check into Mako.

Also, I did my first dungeon last night! It was the one near Limsa Lominsa - we cleared it and no one died. Took me a little bit to get my bearings in there, but it was a blast!

One other question I had to remove from my original post (1000 char limit, really?) I have seen people in the world have a Chocobo pet attack with them? Is that tied to a class or could i eventually have that ability as a Gladiator?

Thanks!