I have never liked the recoil of the glock in either 9mm or .40 cal.
I saw that you said that someday a 1911 is in your future, but didn't notice if you have fired one yet. I have found the .45 in a 1911 to be preferable in recoil (as well as many other things).
My first handgun was the Ruger p345 and really liked it. As many have suggested, for me to get proficient to where I wanted to be shooting the .45 was pretty spendy, and I bought a Ruger Hunter .22 three weeks later.
A month or so later I was robbed and insurance covered my losses, thanks USAA! and went and bought a Smith and Wesson M41 .22. Living near to a range, I was able to go nearly as frequently as any impulse and shot many thousands of rounds with the .22, Bullseye style as a guy next to me on the range showed me. Trigger control was quickly being mastered!
Since then the 1911s have come along and have "mastered" them, mainly due to the time spent on the M41 providing me with a base of skills developed from thousands of .22s. (I am sure what skills I had from the .22 were the primary reason that my learning curve on the 1911 was shorter than if I had not had all the trigger time on the .22)
That said, as others have posted, if you don't get the .22 right away, and go with one of the "larger calibers", dry firing can't be stressed enough as way to improve your shooting.
So if I was you with the initial budget I would get a ruger .22 for a few hundred dollars and a used 1911 as well for a few hundred dollars, especially if you are going to be getting a high end 1911 down the road.