Yeah, Dieter is right, pick a Military or Police faction and learn from some of the veterens in those, you can then easily branch out into other factions when you got the know-how.
join a mining faction like BMM, kruger, IMG or daumann. make loads of credits easily. just beware of all of the lolwut pirates that lurk in T-23, dunlin, Omegas... Oh wait!
Try to help staving people of Cryer by descreasing their work by 0.00000028%, by applying to Cryer Pharmaceuticals today!
Or, if you're less hard-working, I'd like to offer you such option as ALG. We have to save Sirius, after all.
On another hand, you could try out Blood Dragons of Kusari. Very dangerous guys, wearing black sunglasses and using black suits to deal with everything. Alongside with rifles, of course.
Gallic Royal Navy, bunch of evil maskarading terrorists, will gladly help you to enlist in their ranks to help you to cover their backs from justice of the Council.