EVE New Citizens Q&A

All of the above are good answers. Commitment per se is limited to changing skills, unless you have made a commitment to a corp or an activity.

As an example: I have one pilot in a nullsec PvP outfit, another is a small corp CEO/industrialist and BH mostly just sits in stations training for Black Ops. I trade on four alts, have another as a scout/cyno for my PvP guy and another working on a secret project.

The PvP corp requires "log in and kill stuff once a week, and attend CTAs if you are online". That is my commitment there, and is an active commitment, i.e. requires my full attention. I'd say maybe one 4 hour block per week at minimum, but often more by choice.

The trading is low intensity, and has no fixed commitment - if I'm not losing ships in PvP, I don't absolutely need to make ISK. I have enough passive income in datacores, PI and loot sales to replace a couple of ships per week. But I usually do cycle each alt a few times a week, checking orders, creating courier contracts etc. If I need to make a big chunk of ISK, I fire up the production lines.

The secret project requires a few hours per week in social engineering, but that is entirely elective on my part and I can do it concurrently with my other activities.

So I guess my point is: there is active, full attention time commitment, and there is elective, semi-afk non-commitment, and shades in between. Try to understand the time profile of any new activity to see if it fits in with your RL. Running a wormhole corp is very different in commitment to being a line pilot in a mission corp.