How can I compete?

It’s becoming pretty difficult to take this seriously, because “I have no money” seems to be an argument you trot out as an excuse not to take the advice you’ve been offered. Money doesn’t seem to be an issue with some things:

http://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/learning-to-make-pretty-sites/195990/3?u=technobear

But if you really want my opinion (and I somehow doubt that you do), I would say that you need to decide how best you’re going to eat after your “couple hundred” dollars runs out. If you think you can make it freelancing, then you should spend a few dollars on hosting and get a site up, because as I and others have said, you’ll stand very little chance of getting work without one. The sooner you get a site up, the sooner you stand a chance of starting to earn.

If you don’t think you can make it in freelancing just now, or don’t want to risk a few dollars investment, then I suggest you forget all about it for now, find a regular job of any kind which will pay your bills and once you’re financially stable again, you can look at learning the necessary skills to move into freelancing.

But there is really no point in repeatedly asking us much the same questions, in the hope that somehow we’ll suddenly come up with a magical easy answer. There isn’t one. There are some hard decisions you need to make, and only you can make them.

3 Likes