Freelance or internship (courses)?

Question

Freelance

A year and a half ago I started learning RNR.
For half a year I have it at a minimum level. I could only do authorization / registration + write to the database, and the parsers are not complicated either.
Plus, I clumsily knew the layout, but I knew it.
I decided to go freelancing, I went to Quark, a web studio found me there and I worked there for two months, then I entered the university and worked there already, I didn’t work and didn’t teach.

So until December it was somewhere, and then I started looking for courses in PHP. Paid and 3 times a week for an hour and a half, immediately discarded as shit. Then I came across an academy, not a STEP, 2.5 months, 1 month - theory + practice, 1.5 months - creating a project using modern technologies. I read the reviews, asked around, decided to prepare for the selection, six months.
I started reading the doc, I passed the course for yudemi, various videos on YouTube, + some small projects of my own.

To pass, I had to pass a test, I have 84, a passing 50. Then make 3 home + skype calls with "HR".
And while there is time before the academy gave the project to be done, I did it, I didn’t implement everything correctly, but I did most of it.

And the idea came up to find some experienced freelancer and work for him, experience + $ to earn a little.

I can’t decide whether to go to the academy or try to do something like this.

If you go to the academy, then immediately after it either look for someone or go freelancing yourself.

What can you advise?

Answer 1

I can advise you to start making decisions on which your life depends on your own. This is a skill that will come in handy a hundred times more in life than php / layout.
And besides this, there are only two tips:
- Go freelancing.
- go to the academy.
Choose which one you like best.

Answer 2

And the idea came up to find some experienced freelancer and work for him, experience + $ to earn a little.

That is unlikely. Freelancing is for making money, not for dealing with interns.

Answer 3

If you want more experience, then you need an internship, which will then affect the amount of your remuneration. Freelancing, of course, is good, but if you know how to quickly learn as you work, not everyone knows how.