I need an advice

[nowConoNuts]

Hello!
I'm new here. I've been browsing tons of forums for an idea of what to do. I was laid off from my job about 3 month ago. I've been looking for a job since then, but did not even get a single interview. I worked as a web designer for a publishing company for the last 5 years. Looks like www.freewebspace.net is an active forum with active members and may be someone has some experience working as a freelance web designer. May be "Free hosting discussions" category is not the most appropriate for this question, but I want to try anyways to get some opinions before I go ahead with my life. I'm wondering if it is possible in the current economy to find work for a freelance web designer and make enough to pay for rent and groceries. I was able to find a small project on craigslist and I developed a website for a company. It was a small project and took me only a week to complete. I got paid $800 for 1 week of work which is not bad. Please people give me some ideas. I have 2 kids and my wife is out of work as well. Thank you in advance.

[Jan]

May be "Free hosting discussions" category is not the most appropriate for this question,
Moved to General Discussions :)

Welcome :wave:

[stuffradio]

To be honest, the market right now is filled with these kids who charge too little. (I'm not much better right now)

Your best options I think, would be to get a part time job at a grocery store, Tim Hortons (Canadian), Wendy's whatever and scour forums like Digital Point or Craigslist for bits of work until you can build up a stable client base that gets you steady work.

[~ServerPoint~]

Visit talkfreelance forums to make sure what is being offered there. Hope that helps you

[Richard]

As stuff said, too many kids are charging far too little at the moment to make a "good" amount from web designing without working for a major company, and even those are slipping.

Get a job somewhere else for 12-18 months and hopefully it will have picked up a little by then.