Considering the rant on your last thread a few moments ago, perhaps you should go play ANYTHING but Elite.
If you don't want to graft your way to a better spaceship, if you don't want to risk all your money on taking your cargo to the next system for 5% profit ... well this game is probably not for you.
On the other hand. It's not a race. It might take you weeks, months, years to get to where 'you' want to get to ... and that's the point. You are competing against your own ambitions.
Take a breath. Relax. Look around your local system and work out which are likely to be safe regions, which are likely to have good trade routes between them. It doesn't come on a silver plate.
When you screw up, get blown up, crash into an inanimate object or fail to escape an interdiction and get shot to ribbons - and you will - learn.
There is no winner. There is Elite. And it's the getting there that's the experience!