Recently started, having decision paralysis with what job to target

[Raldo]

Although I do worry about it having no way to gain haste. Must keep a lookout for food that increases skill speed...

There are remarkably few ways to increase attack speed in this game. I assume that's because haste in FFXI was overpowered, so they're reluctant to delve too deeply down that avenue again. For most jobs, skill speed is at, or near, the bottom of the list of stats to prioritize. Even if you stack on as much speed as you can (at the expense of other stats), you might speed yourself up by a little more than 10%~20% (pushing your GCD from 2.5sec down to 2-ish). Food doesn't have particularly strong effects either (so much so that most people generally don't bother eating food at all), so you're not likely to notice its effects.

I'm told that FFXIV has more abilities that are off the global cooldown than most games, and since skill speed doesn't affect those abilities (doesn't reduce their recast timer, for some reason??) it's valued far less. On the plus side, that means there are still a fair number of things to do while you're waiting on your GCD to roll back around, but the early game will definitely feel slow until you start gaining those abilities. For DRG specifically, all your self-buffs, all your Jumps, and a few other things are off the GCD. If you go to the job guide, anything without a 2.5s GCD is an oGCD ability.

[Mebahiah]

Heh, I was referring to the fact that the Dragoon is the only melee DpS job that doesn't have a built-in haste ability (q.v. the Monk's coeurl form skills, Huton, Shifu).