Wormholes

These days, you can be pretty darn effective in wormholes with a lot less than a T3. Since most recently even (active tanking buff), you can do a lot already with as little as a caracal/thorax/vexor in c1/c2-whs, and a proper AB-cruiser can go places.

I'd strongly suggest lvl-4-scanning skills, mining frigate+gas harvesting (to I gets the job done for starters), hacking to III+ and salvaging to III+ asap, on an alt if avaiable. And the ability to fly a helios (gallente frig V + covops IV).

There are no rough guidelines on where you can be useful. Wormholes are a place for fleets, however small, and a well-piloted sentinel (amarr t2 frig) is worth sooooooooooo much compared to yet another all-V-draek. It's really situational, but at 11mil SP you got a good basis set already.

Hope that helps, else BNI does have a very decent wormholegroup - if you aren't aware already. Last I saw them in a c5 with static c3, running anomalies in their static with loads of vexors and augurors. None of them would've been able to do that alone, but together, they could ;)

Else, there are some corporations named in the sticky thread *notable wromhole corps* that are rookie friendly, if you don't fit their profile in a pub chat they'll surely give you another name to talk to.

You really want gas huffing to 5. Its a short skill but more than doubles your yield compared to lvl 4

This is definitely the way to go. Learning from people who are already established in wormhole space makes it far more easy to adapt.

Also, Illusion of Solitude is a good group of dudes. They can teach you the way of wormholes.

Living with a good group is surely a fun. But relying on others for PvE is imho bad idea. Time constrainst are then too sewere. Especially in wormhole space there often comes times when you have to do something alone.