Ships & Modules

I'll offer some advice from a carrier pilot:

1. A carrier (any capital ship really) is not something you can squeak by with while you finish training your skills. Train the skills, then buy the ship. And I mean train them to level 4 or 5, not 2 or 3.
2. Fighters suck in non-cap PvP - train for sentries.
3. Do NOT take Drone Control units into PvP.
4. DO take a smartbomb.
5. Carry a spare cyno ship - you never know when you'll need one, and one of your fleet mates can treade ships and light it for you. The Ibis and the Velator are great for this (especially since the hulls are free).
6. When you buy your first carrier, buy two. You WILL lose the first one (mine was lost less than 3 months after I got it) usually to some bone headed move on your part. Having the replacement on hand will make the initial loss less painful.
7. Don't attack lone Goonswarm Sabres off a station. (This is a direct corollary to #6 regarding bone headed moves). They're not as alone as they might seem.

Here's an idea of the skills i would expect an ENTRY level (armor) carrier pilot to possess.
Capital Repair Systems 4
EM Armor Compensation 5
Explosive Armor Compensation 5
Kinetic Armor Compensation 5
Thermic Armor Compensation 5
Cloaking 4
Energy Management 5
Energy Pulse Weapons 1
Energy Systems Operation 5
Evasive Maneuvering 4
Hull Upgrdes 5
Jury Rigging 4
Mechanics 5
Signature Analysis 5
Tactical Shield Manipulation 4
Targeting 5
Thermodynamics (strongly recommended to 4)
Capital Ships 3
Jump Drive Calibration 4
Jump Fuel Conservation 3
Carrier 4
Capital Remote Armor Reapair 4
Capital Energy Emission Systems 4
Capital Shield Emission Systems 4
Combat Drone Operation 5
Drone Durability 5
Drone Navigation 5
Drone Sharpshooting 5
Electronic Warfare Drone Interfacing 4
Fighters 4
Heavy Drone Operation 5
Multitasking 4
Repair Drone Operation 5
Scout Drone Operation 5
Sentry Drone Interfacing 5
Tactical Logistics Reconfiguration 3
Amarr Drone Specialization 4
Caldari Drone Specialization 4
Gallente Drone Specialization 4
Minmatar Drone Specialization 4

Capital Repair Systems is first on the list. The rest are missing though.

Those skills are way over the top for an 'entry level' pilot.

i had heard about the WH carriers. how usefull are a carrier really in WH space?

get onto the test server my friend, i suggest you train on TQ skills like drone durability, drone navigation, armor skills, capacitor skills, spaceship command and support. Then go to Sisi test server and participate in mass tests, this nets you 2m skill points each time you do it, thats enough to speed your way to caps. Then buy a dozen carriers for a few thousand isk and fly them to CA 1. You will find people to shoot at, people to shoot at you and best of all friends who can teach you how to run a carrier right.

I've been playing for 8 months now. I just don't feel ready for a cap ship yet is the thing due to my Skills.

If you are considering flying a carrier/dreadnought in the future though, best thing to do is get into a very good 0.0 corporation which is in an alliance owning sov. The corporation should have some carrier/dread pilots you can talk to about owning a cap.

I have an alt that is a carrier pilot with a thanny in a low sec station. It has undocked twice and hasn't done a thing. To expensive
to move and I have no experience flying it.
one day I hope the corp/alliance will help me shift it to null sec and I can start flying it.
one day

The most important consideration in training a carrier, particularly if such training is to the exclusion of other skills, is need.

That's the need for Carriers in general and the need for a specific Carrier.
At present you have a small, young and inexperienced corporation; no alliance and uncertain prospects (as far as you've indicated) and that means very little apparent need for any Carrier, let alone your specified Chimera.

That doesn't mean that Carriers are out of the question - but particularly at only four months old I would advise making it a back-burner project.
There are hundreds of skills which you could train, many of which wouldn't hurt your carrier when you eventually reach it but which would (more importantly) improve your day to day performance. It may, for example, be very benificial to spend some time flying Logistics ships for a while, both to grow used to managing reps, cap...etc in the midst of a combat which you have to remain aloof from and to improve your general situational awareness.

Given the gang size you're likely to be mustering and the fleet composition you can initially expect, I would only consider using a carrier if you have support agreements with larger, more established Alliances which require you to commit Capital forces or to transport equipment to your base of operations to provide them with a starting point from which to work - far better at present to provide a backbone around which your younger corpies can build (be it Logistics to keep them in the fight longer, force multipliers such as ECM to increase their engagement envelope, Leadership, scouting or whatever else).
You may wish to train for your carrier in the background, of course, but specialising in something more immediately useful to your corp has both broader application and greater longevity.

I can't remember when I acquirred my carrier but I've moved it three or four times as staging systems changed, used it once (to move stuff for corpies) and been requested to bring it to a potential combat situation once - the scale of the capital modules however meant I didn't have the fit they needed, and in any case I would have been more use to the fleet in a Guardian.

I know that the wish to be useful and the charisma of Capital class ships is incredibly seductive but think very carefully before embarking on such a long and quite niche role - there are probably more valuable roles you could be approaching both more quickly and with much broader application.

Everything i wanted to say has been said in this thread, there are many solid comments from experienced people. The only thing i can't stress enough: do not go with the chimera. Train an Archon, you can never go wrong with an Archon!

But what Archon can carry with 3,300 m3 cargo bay? Rorqual with 40,000 m3 seems to be much better choice.

shameless thread derailage:
i've never actually been to amamake, but i'm really curious: is there any one force controlling the system or is it the giant everlasting clusterfuck i imagine it to be?