Please, please. If you're a newb like I am, don't hang out in Empire thinking you need to make ISK. You don't. Come to Delve, get a frigate and earn ISK when it's quiet but more importantly blow shit up. Seriously we blew up a lot of stuff tonight and while my contribution was minimal it was really neat to see - cause major stuff went BBOOOOOOOM. Which is why we play internet spaceships. So forget your reservations. Join up. Get to Delve. Watch shit go Boom. *And* Make ISK.
I'm mentoring a new player (under 10 days old) in empire now. He makes a total of 10mil isk a week missioning. You should make over that in an hour of looting wrecks here in Delve. ISK is not the issue, get in corp, set clone to C6Y, and pod yourself over.