lookin fer trouble

Pointy stick - my new kestrel frigate fit, took her out lookin' fer trouble in Bosbogger pipe to Amamake, Never seen the Olfeim, Bosbogger, gates so dead. why is it everytime i get geared up to go out I can't find a decent fight.. I find fights, I found a ratting hurricane on a belt,he killed his rats, looted and then started salvage, but I haven't taken 'Pointy Stick' out before and I didn't like my chances.

jumped into a plex and took a shot at the faction drop ... nothing, booted around looking for sub-battleship fights for us.. nothing, went roaming through the belts looking for wayward miners and their jet can flipping ways... nothing.. WTF?

Logged in sadness, looking forward to taking "Red Rider BB Gun" out tonight.

Been trying my hand at Marketing with my God like alt, god like being a '04 character that i have been playing off and on since i first started eve, i started the game with no mentor, no clue, and a powerful anti-human interaction policy , so needless to say my skill training was F**K*D up bad, so i have spent the last year or so sorting him out, the bright side is he is hella old and powerful jedi.. but he is missing essential skills for example he has been in a battleship since 07 but has large guns 3... I know right.. so like i said i spent several months doing research, in about 06 i found out there was skills that raised your stats.. <- like i said i had no clue. So he is almost sorted, reaching the 40mil skill point mark and going strong. but he has skills in every profesion, some of them rockzor skills, and some of them wtf why bother skills, but he can do it all to some extent. He can fly every minmater hull short of caps, including sub-caps (orca, jump freighter and freighter) he can make pretty much anything short of capital ships, he has corp management skills in 5's with leadership skill maxed out, he has decent drone and engineering skills, but I never properly trained him to any end, not until about 08 when I got all my RL friends to play, i gave them what i never had, and discovered battleclinic, evemon, capsuleer and the blog community.. suddenly I knew what i was doing.

I have come a long way from there, its been an interesting ride, Diamond Fury is twice the combatant of my other character, at less than a fifth the age, so that is something to be said. though diamond can barely enter empire space, and my alt has access to lvl 4 and 5 missions. but recently i have been seriously considering the market, I have interacted with it on multiple occasions but never with any real success per say, i have run cargo, and traded commodities, but never actual profiteering and market manipulation, until now.. It takes a lot to really invest in the idea, and then you have to really hawkeye and keep on top of it or you will fail at it, i invested about 600 Mil my first go round, and stand to make about 100 million back in profit. if it work i will do it again, if it fails .. i will be sad, as i have recently discovered that I DONT MAKE ANY MONEY IN EVE... i have brought in a grand total of about 2 Million isk in the last 2 weeks, between corporate share, fleet sharing, ammo costs and corp hold ... i make almost nothing, a lost ship can cost either of my character upwards of 60-100 mil, ( i dont fly BS like.. ever) one of my character is at level 1 mission reputation.. I live like im in 0.0 space without the income, im 100% for the corp, i set the tax to 80% whenever i go out missioning, and dump everything i get into the hangars, meta 4's loot off killed players, faction modules.. all of it ... i make almost nothing... im very very poor... and it makes me sad cause all i want to do is blow stuff up.
I miss 0.0 space.. there is no happy place for me ... here is what I want.

I want to be in 0.0 space, with its lawless nature it has the most 'REAL' feel to it. no concord, no gate guns, just an ever present knowledge that your next jump could be your last. its oddly freeing.
I want Small gang warfare, groups of 5-10 or even smaller, duo's and trio's in frigate and cruiser gangs. I want to be able to find a small group, and kill them , or die trying without gettign a 250man blob in the face.
I cant have what i want, i don't have a gang to live in low sec, and i don't get much small gang action in 0.0 space, Faction warfare left small gangs in the past in exchange for fleet finder blobs of ever rampaging noobs and five year old corps that left 0.0 for more small gang action .. wait Wut?
Wormholes are too isolating, no pvp or too much pvp only.. nothing in the middle.
So what is a guy to do ?
I wish they would fix faction warfare... maybe we could do that ?