I totally agree with what Drang3d said, I'm only doing low-scale freelance work at the moment cos im still in college, but from doing a good site for one of the college societies (free of charge), i was offered 3 paid jobs, of which i only had time to take 2, and from one of them I was offered a further job, and meanwhile my lecturer noticed all this and i'm now due to begin a subsite for a University faculty. Jobs are everywhere, there's enough poor websites that need a better one, or companies without sites at all to keep every good designer in the country on their toes, so my advice to you is start somewhere, ask around a few local businesses, get 2-3 really good sites, and from there you'd be very unlucky not to be offered further work.

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