I know some basic HTML, CSS. JS, and very little React – I’m learning it currently. One of the things I see mentioned online is freelancing as a way to earn income. Now, I’ve tried this before in the past on UpWork, and it was nearly impossible to get anything out of it, I rarely received a response and that required submitting a lot of proposals which in turn cost a lot of money.
When I go on UpWork, many of the jobs need WordPress developers or an array of skills I simply do not have and appear to require a lot of time to learn.
Furthermore, I’m in an odd place financially and career wise, where I can’t seem to get a job anywhere, not even at places that would’ve hired me before, and certainly not as a junior developer.
I suppose I’m asking for advice. If freelancing is an option to pursue, how do I go about it in the cheapest and most cost effect way possible? If freelancing is not the right option, then what can I do with what I do know? Lastly, is the job market in a weird state for every sector?
This makes a lot of sense. I’ll have to see how I can apply this locally, but at least it’s more information that I had before on how to approach this. I appreciate it, thank you.
I just elaborated some of his points and shared a system that I used when I was freelancing as a reply to his comment. Idk how to tag you on Lemmy, so I figured I’d reply to you here in case you want some more advice from someone who freelanced for about 8 years as my sole income.
Thank you! Your reply provides a lot of missing context. It will be my bible, or at least part of the guidelines I need to get something started.