I went with creating myself (or at least a facsimile. I could never get the eyes right and my wife commented he looked like Andy Serkis) and chose to be a Professor, perhaps on a mining job to learn about xenobiology.

Yesterday (in-game) I got lung damage from radioactive smoke and developed a cough. At first I found it annoying but I’ve been thinking I might keep it because I have Asthma in real life.