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So one thing that the Pathfinder skill system lost from 3.5 is allowing 1st level characters to dabble in many different skills. Each class is locked into X+Int skills at 1st level. Which means your 8 Int Half-orc Fighter has two whole skills to his name. In 3.5, he could have trained in four of them if he felt like it.
Over in this post I came up with a handy little houserule to cover this issue. Like the draw-as-part-of-a-move-action and rogues-without-weapon-finesse, it only comes into play at 1st level. But for those who play really slowly, this idea could be of some use.
At 1st level, a character may put one-half a rank into any skill. While this does not grant a bonus on skill checks, as a full rank does, it allows a character to make checks with a trained-only skill. If the skill is a class skill, the character gains one-half of the class skill bonus, for a total of +2 to skill checks. At 2nd level, the character must increase all half ranks to full ranks.
The final sentence can be omitted for players who want complete freedom, but I doubt anyone will want to keep putting half ranks into things unless they are really short on points.