These days, it's quite common that people with some PHP experience but without Drupal experience get on the Drupal bandwagon, often hired by some company or as a freelancer. If the next step is that you begin to work for some gig for a client then you and the client will both suffer. A very good and beneficial way to get acquainted with Drupal is core bugfixing. There are always bugs that are trivial to the experienced and can be solved by a newcomer if he puts himself to the task really. Come to our IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #drupal) and you will get pointers to such bugs -- last week when I thought this out, I found two within one minute -- and help if you get stuck. To put it another way, when I asked the channel about this, one of the most serious contributors said: "It is generally the policy of people in the channel to lavish help upon those who are actively contributing".

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