You wake up in Eorzea... What is your next step?

[Curisu]

As my irl self without fancy plot armor and being just as average as now?...

I will see that more realistic.
I would join the alchemy guild and learn there for a while.
When I know the basics of the world, I would start to create plastics.
Then start creating machines to get it into mass production.

As side hobby I would try to become a blackmage.
Then try to harvest energy from fire and lightning magic.

It is also useful because with ice magic I can cool down any room in the hot summer heat.

[HeulGDarian]

Id contemplate why the fck did i have to spawn in the king behemoth fate.

[Shibi]

Being real, likely level 1, in racial clothes, and with a sprout over my head, I'd clearly need gil fast. I think I'd carefully make my way to Limsa - hitching a ride on a level 80's dual seater - look in party finder, and sell some photos of my paws.

Soon a gillionaire, I would then make an offer for Costa Del Sol that Gegeruju couldn't refuse, and send him and all his catgirls back to Ul'dar. I think I'd still have some gil left to hire a kindle of catbois, to spend my life enjoying cocktails as various adventurers arrived to offer me bribes.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Find my way to the golden saucer, gambling then eventually lose everything and have to wear one of those bunny outfits working off my debt most likely lol

[zlygork]

Cry because a primal, imperial, or someone that is just flat out into money will either kill me turn my life into eating dust very quickly.

Assuming I'm somehow a WoL type bad ass, I'll go to Limsa Lominsa and calmly stare at attractive people in their attractive mogs.

[Alteriius]

I'd make sure I still have an ass.

[Soge01]

Find Minfillia and stare at her chest!

[Shibi]

Find Minfillia and stare at her chest!

That treasure chest in the corner of the Solar? I think it's full of used McDonald's wrappers she shamefully hid after the endless linkshelled/Uberfood deliveries.

[Kozh]

Might as well skip the whole thing and just kill myself. Survival is hard.

[Cled-cat]

Start up a hat business that also serves Viera and Hrothgar customers, I’m sure the demand would be there...