Generally if you got the skills and ISK you can make a decent income with less risk if your agent is far enough away from lowsec. The mean downside is it can drive you insane moving shit around like a glorified delivery boy. If you use blockade runners it's stable early income even for alphas but it's has very slow standing gains but overtime can get a few mil within a few missions. Security missions are better for the better prepared. But if you build up loyalty points to sell implants to jita you can make decent ISK.