Path to ruin or redemtion

So this will be my first blog written on a slate. As always notice labels for clues on content.

After some 2 weeks of grinding it, mostly thanks to a friend I've gotten hold of my 2nd plex and of course activate it so I now have valid pilot license until 13th of august. My friend I called upon rather quickly once I saw that gathering those 500 million as required for PLEX these days was a very long shot. My income potential is less then 10 million pr. hour following the relatively secure path of L4 grinding.
First of I can barely fly a cruiser, sure a cruise helps. when you fly it prober. For this past week or so I've had a focus of building rail gun power and pushing the drone skills. Yes, I'm gallente. I did consider Caldari for a very long time, but they don't really pay off until the drake now do they. Especially if compared to the relative flexibility of drones.
As a matter of fact I've already forked way to wide. I'm building the skills for the Drake, meaning missiles and torps, mixed with the drones. It'll be nice. Starting to have fair armor tanking skills, and if I get my shield skills up there, I'll be alrigth.

Currently I'm running L3, I can manage those solo still so not all bad. The income is of course still way too low.
To counter this I've started my Hulk training. It migth just be the market at the moment, yet my friend seems able to generate the needed cash via roughly 2,5 hours of semi daily Hulk mining.
Decent cashout with little to no risk, at the moment it sounds like the best option. I know from reading market and spreadsheets that it's a half decent low/stable income. But using it to sustain a PLEX flow to keep aloft would take a lot of hours. L4 is still relatively safe but the income is potentially much better, not to speak of the standing gains. Of course I run the full palette, I like being able to setup shop anywhere I choose. All I need now is some 60 days and the cash, Hulks are not free.

This will be all for now, next I'll examine the proposed Drake builds, their strengths and weakness, guessing I should be heading for Navy Raven as everyone swears by.....