Everyone has a preferred way of naviagating the trials and tribulation of the wasteland so i'm curious what are other peoples?

I work as a Small Weapons Dealer. I take down raiders and scum while searching derelicts and areas of interest. Once i got a collection of 100% CND weapons i sell them to a variety of high money traders, especially the Gun Runners, and build up a large collection of caps (On average i've got about 7000 in my inventory and more saved up at my places such as the Hotel Room in Novac)

I enage my enemies usually from a distance with a variety of rifles. If i want up close i use SMGs and the light machine guns.

My SPECIAL usually i use max. intelligence so i can level up my stats quicker and a lot of my initial perks i use intensive training to improve my Strength, Luck and Agility.

Play dead money,sell the gold bars.

Other than that,pick off baddies such as fiends from a distance with a GRA AMR and looting them for weapons (fiends are surprisingly well armed for petty drug addics).

A high speech skill.