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Irregulars and flare stars and novae are more interesting than binaries.
If you are in a club , there will likely be a few people who can show you the ropes and might be willing to take you under their wing and get you started with some comparison charts, and who will happily collect your observations and send them on.
You don't need a big telescope to observe variables , I did most of my observing with a pair of binoculars, only using my telescope to view the fainter variables.
Good starters this time of year are RY Sgr, Eta Car, any novae or recurrent novae or WRS or accessable supernovae, bsst to start off with only a few targets , and as you get more into it, build it up. You'll get to the point that you no longer need to refer to the comparison chart to know the brightness of the comparison stars and where there they are.
Best to observe 2 or 3 times a weeks max (unless something dramatic is happening - ie a flare up or an novae or supernovae - be great to be the person who first detected the supernova of Eta Car !!!
AAVSO , BAA are good places to visit to find out what's happening and to get hold of comparison charts.(downloadable now a days).
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