The learning curve is steep, but you can overcome it by making friends, working with other players by joining a newbie friendly corporation, and making use of the
EvE-O forums which is knowledge base gold mine. You're going to have to be proactive in asking questions and meeting people both in-game and on the forums.
You'll quickly realize that although the game is 5 years running, the top tier players are not the ones with the oldest characters. It's usually the people who have a strong social network on which they can rely on to support their activities. You won't be flying a battleship in your first few months, but that's not going to stop you from participating in some of the most important fleet fights flying along side some of the best players in the game. Success in EVE is not measured by who has the most skill points but rather who has the most wealth, power, territory, friends, and/or notoriety. Those are things are easily lost but hard to earn despite the age of your character.
Corporations and alliances rely on fresh incoming blood to maintain their vitality as an organization. The really good organizations will have their own internal training programs for the rookies. For some organizations, there's always a demand to bring in rookies to support their on going activities.
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Just to note, there's a corporation called Goonfleet that was formed last year that was composed entirely of newbies....2000+ newbies that are challenging the big boys of EVE. Everyone thinks of them as bees and picks on them a lot, but they just swarm you in small, fast, cheap, frigates (back when they were first form, 1200+ Goons all lived in this one, single solar system) and were not considered a serious threat. But many of their members are moving on to Battleships, and within another year, at least 200+ of them will be in capital ships.
They're also in the middle of fighting and possibily killing one of the major alliances in the game.
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And here we are a year and a half later. The Goonies not only killed off that major alliance and booted them from the numerous territories they once held, but the Goonies are now the #1 or #2 power bloc today. Who would have thought.