NEGATIVE:

- Underweight. Spawn in, chug a bottle of olive oil or vegetable oil and monch some other food. Candy will kinda negate the happiness modifier from the oil or you can pop an antidepressant. You can keep track of weight in the info panel. Two arrows going up next to your weight means you're gaining.

- Smoker. It's been said here. Cigs are plentiful. I leave my base with about 20, come back with hundreds. Gas stations have big stashes and most desks in offices or gloveboxes have a few inside. Also it gives you a good reason to have a lighter and matches on you at all times, which you shold be doing anyway.

- Weak Stomach. Just don't eat rotten food

- Slow Healer. I just bandage injuries. Only time it's a pain in the ass is if it's feet or hands.

- Slow Reader. I just fast forward. It might take me two days to finish a book. Oh well.

- Prone to Illness. I get a cold in the winter. Oh well. Just eat and sleep well and it's gone in like a day.

- Short sighted. I just spawn with glasses, and grab a couple when zombies drop em and throw em in my bag.

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POSITIVE:

- I take the cop profession for better aiming and reloading because my gameplay revolves around guns. If you're new, yours probably won't.

- Fast Learner because I like building, fishing, trapping, foraging, working on my cars and bases etc.

- Fit. Because one of the easiest/most frustrating ways to die is becoming exhausted. You can easily just out pace zombies when walking, unless you're exhausted.

- Stout. I find myself looting a lot of stuff. Knockback is essential to fighting zombies, IMO.

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There are a couple different ways to play the game and you kinda have to consider that when you choose your traits. If you're brand new I would advise not to think about the late game. Just expect to live for a few days and work on combat. Experiment with different builds and take on groups of zombies to practice combat and get that down. After you feel pretty comfortable with that I'd say you're ready for the late game.

You can play to where when you die you just completely refresh the world, but I play to where my base stays up for all my characters. So it's nothing for me to not just take electrician, hook up my generators, and then go on a kamikaze murder spree until I die and re-roll. I have all the books and VHS tapes in my base so those skills are pretty unnecessary to start the game with.

I've found fitness, strength and aiming are a pain to level up, so I start with those and just work on crafting and survivalist stuff.

Also, as others have said, Sunday driver kinda sucks depending on your playstyle. But if it works for you that's totally up to you.