This brings back some painful memories, since I leveled White Mage as my very first job as a Galka almost 11 years ago.
It was very very hard to get into parties, let alone stay for a long enough time to gain a level or two. (getting 3 levels on a single day was a lot that time). Eventually I found some people who weren't only looking at races when picking jobs and so I got my WHM to 60 (and later 75) with a fun party. But I did get a lot of offensive comments thrown at me in other parties just for being a Galka White mage...