How to find the first job or order for a layout designer?

Question

Freelance

Hello!
Started learning frontend. But I'm stuck on theory and can't move. Mastered layout and basic JavaScript. I am interested in remote work or freelancing. Is it possible to find, for example, a freelancer who could give me a couple of orders that he is not personally interested in because of the simplicity and low price. This way I would get real work experience and examples of work for a portfolio. You can also write if this is a stupid idea.
Now for the skills:
Naturally, HTML/CSS
Familiar with SASS/SCSS
preprocessors Made up on flex and bootstrap, superficially familiar with grids. I know about the existence, in addition to bootstrap, of frameworks like UAYkit, foundation, bulma. Looked into their documentation
Used the GULP assembler
I tried to work with layouts in photoshop, adobe.xd, zeplin, avocode
I watched a lot of training videos on YouTube, repeated after the authors. I myself completely made up only 2 one-page layouts. Uploaded to github.
I took the freecodecamp JS basics course, read the first section on learn-javascript and the JS for kids book, also took the JS basics on MDN web-docs.
Tried to work with WordPress through OpenServer. Any landing could pull on it.
I think the problem is clear - I am an eternal student. I went to the freelance exchanges and became discouraged by the fact that dozens of newbies like me are attacked there for simple orders.
PS There is a friend who works as a tester. He says that it’s almost impossible for beginners to freelance now. He advises to quit this business and go to QA.

Answer 1

Just go to the freelance exchange and just respond to orders that you can make.

Answer 2

I went to the freelance exchanges and became discouraged by the fact that dozens of newbies like me are attacked there for simple orders.

The question is how to take orders without competition?
No way. Only to butt with an army of the same newcomers.
The same problem will be when you become more experienced. =) why should the client pay more if the beginner Vasya does the same for 100 rubles

Answer 3

Html and css can now be said to be unnecessary in its pure form. If you are really burning with the desire to develop, then it would not be bad to get a job in the office and get skills there. However, getting a job will also not be an easy task, you need to increase your stack and stand out in some way from other candidates

Answer 4

It’s really better to have an office, you’ll get more skills than remotely with fierce competition and a minimum of opportunities to get money orders.

Answer 5

Look for a job in the office, respond to all vacancies that correspond to competencies.
If you find a job right away - you're lucky, if you don't find it - monitor the internships.
Nobody really needs you to work remotely, even in the current realities when everyone is transferred there))
From personal experience, I was looking for a job for half a year.
I came to the interview as a typesetter, and as a result I went to the front with a salary twice as high =)
Only now the interview took 1.5 hours and solved the tasks on a piece of paper))
Enjoy, so to speak)
Well, one more thing, I had to go from Sochi to Novosibirsk move =))