Hiring/playing professionals sounds good to me. Very good in fact

Only problem is that I am really busy studying for an important exam right now, so I don't have that much time and braincapacity to spare for shadowrun. So creating a new runner might take me quite a while.
But, should I really need much more time to create a runner than you guys need, maybe my character can just jump in a few days later, I guess if we play professionals we don't have to fear dying on the first day
