How to create a portfolio for freelancing or remote work?

Question

Portfolio

I have been studying programming for quite a long time with some interruptions, lately I have been sitting for 8 hours a day doing it, mainly the basics of CS + eng.
There is knowledge in native JS and Java core.
Even if I’m not doing this for the sake of money, the reality is that in any case, you will still have to create a source of income. In general, time is already running out ...
I decided to go either to freelance or to remote work (there is no way to get an offline studio because of the territorial location, stupidly there are zero vacancies, not only in web development).
Since there is very little experience in development. There are no completed works. Yes, and knowledge is limited, there is no special knowledge in mainstream tools.
On the frontend, I have the following knowledge: html, css (everything except for grids, until I poked. codepen ), stylus, es6+.
In general, what do you need to have available to take orders for freelancing or get a job in a remote studio?
What technologies need to be studied without fail for work at the present time?
How to cook up a portfolio? How much minimum work is required? What work to add? Layout, full-fledged applications or something else? How difficult should the work be? How to arrange all this? What technologies to use? I don’t rummage about it at all ...
I’m ready to learn everything that needs to be done, everything that needs to be done, just to quickly earn a pretty penny. Already anril ... and so I'm already walking on the edge, a little more and I'm a bum.
Tell me in general the path from 0 to the first order.
Of course, I wrote nonsense, but I don’t know how to put everything into words at all.
I would like a minimum wage ... at least 15-20k rubles / month. To at least eat 1+ times a day) I think this amount can be earned on freelancing. Although I don’t know how to start there without a stat.

Answer 1

With such qualifications, freelancing is contraindicated.
Otherwise, you will receive this ridiculous money all your life until retirement.
In freelancing, the growth of qualifications for beginners from scratch is extremely slow.
Plus, competition among freelancers is in the lower price segment.
In the upper price segment there is already competition among employers for workers.

Answer 2

I have bad news for you, no one needs you without experience. On freelance, you need to solve the problems of the customer, i.e. you need to be "Both a Swiss and a reaper ..." and do everything in a short time. There is huge competition for pure layout, plus there are fewer orders in the summer. So I advise you to divide your doshirak into a couple of parts so that it lasts longer.

Answer 3

In general, what do you need to have available to take orders for freelancing or get a job in a remote studio?

You need to find such vacancies and see what they require

Answer 4

In this case: give up on web freelance (and webdev in general) as the main source of income and go to work ... as a courier, at a factory, a janitor, after all.
And then, when there is no task - a kilogram of meat or a month of the Internet - you can already think about the eternal.

Answer 5

Start with the forum searchengines.guru - this is the largest forum for marketers in RuNet. A lot of your potential customers and employers sit on it.
-> Create a theme "I create for a review", "I write software for a review"...
-> Take 3-4 orders and complete them.
-> You get the first feedback about your work, experience with customers, work for the portfolio.
-> You start providing layout and programming services on the same forum only for a fee.
For an example, you can look at these topics:
searchengines.guru/showthread.php?t=236893
searchengines.guru/showthread.php?t=176239

Answer 6

As an option for freelance layout.
Look for web designers or small teams on exchanges and offer your services. Get your first jobs.
At one time, I received the first orders in this way, I found a couple (layout, designer) and wrote directly. In terms of layout, they did not meet the deadlines and threw off small orders for me for %. Later I found a designer with whom I worked in tandem. Then the sundress worked.

Answer 7

Study while working :)
On freelance, I had to learn a lot of things already when placing an order, since the customer needs EVERYTHING. And it doesn’t matter to him that you don’t know this)
And it’s unrealistic to learn EVERYTHING, because you don’t know what exactly you need to learn.

Answer 8

everyone started somewhere) get a job as an intern or remotely take a project with a small payment to start)