I think the best I ever had was an Ork Rigger that got his start as a CSA soldier, then became a PMC, then became a shadowrunner to cut out the middleman.
The problem I had was that I had so much money at character creation that I didn't know what to do with it, but I got the impression that if I took less money, I might not have enough to get what I needed.
My last two characters were a hardworking Ork getaway driver who didn't want his criminal activities to come anywhere near his family and a turbostealth Face. The latter didn't get very far because the DM hated how I kept pure RP running and succeeded basically whatever rolls he asked for (until that dwarf biker gang) but the idea was going to be that he was going through a bit of an identity crisis from years of drugs and having too much fun pretending to be other people
I didn't even put anything into rigging. He was just this stubbornly old-fashioned dude who insisted on driving manually and I put a ton of dice into that
It was my compensation for my Face character- the annoyingly sneaky careful character who pretty much couldn't be traced followed up by one of the most vulnerable characters I've played
