How to Start Freelancing With No Experience From Absolute 0 and Totally Crush It!

Freelancing at an early career stage produces additional challenges. Most obviously, the biggest challenge is growth, both in professional competence and as a business. As a fresh graduate, for instance, starting freelancing means you would be building your professional competence as well as your business – at the same time!

Insane odds, don’t you think, when you compare how many experienced freelancers there are in the world as it is?

But not all is lost. There is a way to start as I showed some potential ways forward even if you don’t yet have any true work experience.

For a young individual, it may be easier to start online rather than offline in the local circles, i.e. your hometown, because sometimes you just need to get things started with the first couple of clients and specify a niche that is not yet highly competed.

Then, you can quickly learn how to start freelancing with no experience. It’s a process.

But first, let’s take a look at an ordinary case and examine the client side of things in a situation where the work is done by – a complete noob.

I recently had to get my laptop fixed.

If my laptop repair was a job on a freelance site, this would be my review: 2/5 stars with feedback saying ”Eventually, everything got done. But I find it slightly irresponsible to put inexperienced people in customer-facing roles because the customer can observe every mistake and mishap in the process.”

Anyone, e.g. freelancers, working in the service industry should learn from this. This is how it went.

The computer repair guy who kept fixing one thing but breaking another

One day, Tuesday, I went to a computer repair shop to get my precious laptop that I’ve come to love very much (the keyboard is a perfect match with my fingers!) fixed. The cooler was making so much noise I knew there was some physical issue with it.

What a mess this ended up being! [Click to continue reading]