Most important thing in EVE if you intend to stay: Join a player driven corp - be it mining/industrial/pvp/0.0/carebearing/whatever try to find a bunch of people you like to do stuff with and join them.

As a very beginner friendly empire corporation I can recommend EVE University (http://www.eveuniversity.org/) thus they have a policy to accept only one character per player (not per account) as a member.