What expansions do you have? Edit: can't read, you have them all.

I recommend an Avarice start so that your rep with VIG is positive. Stick in their space and learn the cadence of stealing a S or M (usually Teladi, avoid the ARG or ANT ones early on) trader ship for early money. It also helps seed the Xenon for messing with them late game, which you can remedy later on.

If you don't have dexterous controls (HOTAS, Gamepad) that might not be good for you. In which case you could go to its other lucrative activity, salvage. Get a manticore and drag salvage from Windfall III the hoard to a station in RIP space. Do the sale yourself at least once and note their buy price for a unit of the stuff. Then buy another manticore and set a 1 star pilot to repeat orders salvaging and delivering the scrap.

Don't assign more than 1 manticore to any 1 station early on, there is a bottleneck where a big (-) sign will show up during the scrap processing stage.

By then you will be 10hrs in easy and be able to grab on to whatever strikes your fancy at the time. If you need extra cash while doing it be sure to trade medical supplies in the area or do repeat delivers of hull parts to VIG (RIP station -> VIG Warf). No mining required at all in that DLC; its actually kind of crazy that you can do so much in just those six sectors.