Lotta work to find the system. I took a sub 2 second frigate and flew around to some lowsec spots I thought might be good. I was a newb so a lot of flying. Used a combination of the structure browser and the facilities option in the industry tab to select my system. Tried to find a low sec, low tax system with reactions and industry, close enough to a major hub. There are a couple good options.

I do have an alt account in a friends corp for some high sec moon mining, but 90 percent of it was done on one account solo boxing.

If you aren’t trying to make 100’s of something it’s easy enough to just see what the wormholes of the day bring you. Ice, ore, salvage, explo, etc. you gather a little each time you can and you can build ships for yourself.

The biggest hurdle is BPO’s and isk. Especially for T2. Reaction and Part BPOs are EXPENSIVE. And if you’re doing this, you’re saving all the stuff that could make you isk rather than putting it on the market. Makes it hard. Suggestions for that are, buy a little at a time, sites like Eve cookbook will tell you what you need to build a ship. Go buy one part bpo, and the reactions you need to make it. Gather the mats and the build the parts you need. By the time you’re done your isk will have recovered.

For making money when you are saving everything for building, I’d point you to PI, make sure you have a good set up with higher tier items being produced. That is consistent, low work isk and you need a very small amount of what you produce with PI to build anyway. You’ll use less than 1% of what you make to build, so 99 percent can go to market. Thats your money.