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Attend and complete your state's certification course, IAABO or whatever it may be, and maintain your membership with annual tests, refreshers, meetings, camps, whatever they require. I like to go to games and watch my colleagues and observe what they do, what I like and don't like. Work as many games as you can. However, and this is a big however, in my experience (and some may disagree but this is my personal experience), if you want to get good at this, you are better off doing high school games, freshmen, JV, varsity. When I work rec league games in my area, I find that a lot of the refs follow lazy mechanics which really screws me up. Havings said that, rec leagues need good refs too, and it's a great place to learn. Stay tuned to this web site, you'll learn a lot here. Be patient, be humble (you'll see a lot of pompousness and arrogance on this site, try to ignore it), during a game, try to get the call right (this means admit when you're wrong), have a good pre-game with your partner. Your rules book should be dog-eared from overuse. My final advice that I try to live with: (1) every game, think of only one aspect of the game that you want to get better at, and work on that one thing that game; and (2) make your mistakes, but hopefully only once. Good luck, have fun, let us know how you're doing.
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