Cesare Romero Incorporated

Today starts under poor auguries.

I log in to be greeted by a 10 million bounty on my head, from someone I'm pretty sure I've never met before...-10.0 sec rating, 1 year+ in his corp...yeah, I see. Evil people, grrr.
It's a good thing nobody cares about bounties, especially at 20% of the price of my venture.

I started mining Kernite in 0.6 space, and I figured it's safe enough, I have drones, and went AFK to prepare myself some delicious lasagne.
...Well, that didn't go too well, I was AFK for far longer than anticipated, and didn't hear the alarms go off all over my ship...3rd Venture down -_- yeah, I'm still an idiot.
But a quick jump to my backup Venture, and Ace Ventura IV is born, fitted with the gear I managed to salvage from my own wreck. 20 minutes later, I'd repaid my venture through mining...*sigh* I still hate being an idiot.

Chatting with the good fellow Raines, he offered me some protips, and some skillbooks he didn't need. I signed the deal without even readng the terms, because as bad practice as it may be, it's a dude who's shown he can be trusted. Still, I wasn't expecting this good of a deal. This day just got a bit better.

Some mining and chatting later, I finally got into contact with a human being from an actual corporation, huzzah! And coincidentally, just as I was chatting to this new recruit in their recruitment channel, a recruiter for yet another corp picked me up. I had to explain why I had a 10 mil bounty on my head, and why I got killed twice in lowsec...I am a newb, I dind't know!
Apparently that was enough to convince them, and I was accepted into Gneiss Shist mining corporation.
Yay! lower tax rates, fellow miners to fleet up with!...n shit.
Well it may be a small corp, and I've only really talked to one newish recruit for now, while doing some more mining, but I'm finally not a complete newbie in an NPC corporation anymore.
Instead of being a small cog in a big machine, I'm a small cog in a small machine! (oh boy! mining is fun!).