These skills are so important to your eve life, these skills are the backbone to your ship, try to get all of these to at least level 4.

Engineering:
Capacitor Management 5 - maximum capacitor capacity.
Capacitor Systems Operation 5 - Maximum capacitor recharge rate
Power Grid Management 5 - Maximum power grid
CPU Management 5 - Maximum CPU amount
Energy Systems Operation 5 - max rate capacitor recharges.
Energy Grid upgrades 5 - Less CPU requirements for power modules
Weapons Upgrades 5 - Less CPU requirement for all weapons


Shield:
Shield Management 5 - Max shield capacity
Shield Operation 5 - Max shield recharge rate

Armor:
Hull Upgrades 5 - Max armor hitpoint
Mechanics 5 - Max hull hitpoint amount.
Repair Systems 4 - Best Armor Repair Modules

Useful Info
Fellow capsuleers we all can find ourselves in situation of struggle which may result in blown up ship so to avoid it use these simple guidelines:

Security Missions lvl1 should be run with Frigate class ship or better
Security Missions lvl2 should be run with Cruiser class ship or better
Security Missions lvl3 should be run wuth Battlecruiser class ship or better
Security Missions lvl4 and 5 should be attempted in fleet.

Also it's always a good idea to check here for any potential scrambling and/or webbing and also for the range of closest enemies after accelaration gate.

** Main Damage type to shoot at the enemy **
Guristas - Kinetic
Serpentis - Thermal
Blood - EM
Sansha - EM
Angel - Explosive
Mercenary - Thermal
Gist - Explosive
EoM - Kinetic
Drone - EM

** Damage types; what to tank **
Guristas - Kinetic / Thermal
Serpentis - Thermal / Kinetic
Blood Raider - Thermal / EM
Sansha's Nation - EM / Thermal
Angel Cartel - ALL
Minmatar Fleet - Thermal / Explosive
Mordus - Kinetic / Thermal
Corpim - EM / Thermal
Gist - ALL

Remember never fly a ship that you can not afford to lose!

Security status: Empire restrictions-Below -2 = not in 1.0 sec systemsBelow -2.5 = not in 0.9 sec systemsBelow -3 = not in 0.8 sec systemsBelow -3.5 = not in 0.7 systemsBelow -4 = not in 0.6 systemsBelow -4.5 = not in 0.5 systems

For our friends with interest in mining this tool should come handy: ORE

For the global market check Central * prices could be updated slower then in game, it is always a good idea to double check if the offer you are after is really there.

If u still have not decided what you really want to do in EVE, check this: What to do

As always Fly safe and may Eve be with you. o7