Okay, the first thing I want to ask actually relates to what I do next, since I've forgotten. What is the first thing you do when you get the Enterprise turned into an Airship? I remember going to to surface world, and not being able to see anything except an island with a temple and a cave on it, but I've gone to that island and nothing seems to be happening.

But onto my main concern. Did they give out the jobs in a different order? I don't remember getting "Thief" in the first set of jobs. And I thought you get Karateka in the second set of jobs, but I just got the second set and no Karateka/Black Belt

And one final concern, is the Monk/Karateka ever going to be worth it? I know in FF1, the Monk is frustratingly useless for most of the game, but toward the end, he becomes ridiculous and (in my experience) becomes a more powerful attacker than the Fighter/Knight.

That wasn't quite always true in the NES version of FF3 that I played recently, but it still was worth training a Karateka. The Monk/Karateka also gained a lot of HP every level up, making him valuble later if you want to change him a job that can make good use of that high HP. But in this version, I've had my monk as a monk since we got the first crystal, and he doesn't really have a pile of HP at all. In fact, all 4 of my characters have roughly the same HP each level.