I had my attempts at freelance pretty disheartening to say the least.
Now to mention I am a full-time employed outside of creative industry so it is not a question of survival but rather self-realisation.
I had some small portfolio but I wasn’t really aiming for top class production opportunities – just the ones that look like small/pet personal projects in need of help for small payment or even free. Because I thought when money’s involved that would drive motivation and responsibility from both sides.
But man…people expectations are so high on this stuff. It’s like people would like Pixar or J. Scott Campbell quality stuff for their lunch money and nothing less.
I ended up landing nothing on Upwork or Freelancer.com.
One guy was active enough even to reach out and tell me not to waste time there with my level of skill. Like he was nice with words but pretty harsh with the meaning leaving me completly destroyed for a few days.
The lesson I got for myself is just to ‘git gud’… Like go on doing stuff aiming for being awesome and something would come up eventually.
