Why is it not recommended to start with freelancing?

Question

Freelance

Hello everyone!) I have been learning front-end development for about 8 months (almost all day), I have no commercial experience yet. From skills: html/css/js/vue/node (in the plan for the front), well, I speak English well. I want to start making some money. But I live in a small town, there are not even such vacancies here, and moving is not an option. Freelance will remain (they don’t take remote work without experience?). I heard many times, however, that if you go to freelance, then with at least a couple of years of experience. Therefore, I want to ask experienced people whether it is possible to start a freelance career from scratch or is it pointless? Thanks in advance to everyone for the replies.
PS The question is really important for me, so I ask you not to delete it) Well, or at least not immediately.

Answer 1

Because 95 percent of people do not know how to properly educate themselves and make difficult decisions, and the remaining five percent do not ask such stupid questions

Answer 2

The efficiency of skill growth is lower - in contrast to face-to-face work with experienced colleagues at the next table.
A person is so arranged that he needs to teach (teach) his loved one. Actually, this can be seen from the forum - the same social mechanism motivates us to spend time on answers.
Therefore, if there are experienced colleagues nearby, even if they are not paid extra for you, you will pull yourself up much faster.
An important point: to get a job where everyone is the same as you or a little better - it makes no sense in terms of training. Colleagues must be really experienced.
You can start work from scratch - who forbids you?
Example: "experienced" freelancers with experience of 7 and 5 and even 12 years, which I happened to hire - did not differ much from the qualifications of the juniors in my office, whom I had a hand in training. Of course, freelancers had a more polished skill in getting money. But professional skills - so-so.
Or be willing to learn on your own. And study harder.
But, as Puma Thailand said, they don’t ask such stupid questions on their own.
On the other hand, having a normal base, let's say, offline for 5 years, freelancing is already more than normal. Your growth on your own can already be just rapid.
Easier and more efficient, IMHO, just move to a big city. Well, at least for 3 years.
What is the problem? Millions of people migrate in search of work.

Answer 3

In fact, it is not recommended to start with freelancing for the reason that a beginner needs to initially receive feedback from good developers who will note errors and show how to best solve the problem. Plus, additional experience is necessary in order to find a good customer and in order to completely solve the problem due to additional wishes.

Answer 4

It seems to me that it is not recommended, because there are a lot of extras in freelancing. work. Type of search for a customer, conversations, discussions (in short, managerial red tape). Without the necessary experience in development, you will be distracted by all this and becoming a professional can take a long time.

Answer 5

they don't hire you without experience

And you don’t say that you don’t have experience (working remotely), show your knowledge, and there it will go.
After all, in freelancing, too, people with experience are more preferred.
What now, "inexperienced" cannot work or what?!

Answer 6

It is better to start in a team, because older comrades will tell you what is wrong with your approach, and they will poke your nose painfully. Without them, you can, without knowing it, become a storehouse of bad practice. And in the best case, then lose time for retraining, at worst - run into the ceiling of development and stop doing anything, eventually becoming uninteresting for the profession.

Answer 7

If you are aiming for lightning-fast growth, then freelancing is not your option, go work in a strong team. In a year or two in a strong team, if you do not resist, you will become a good developer. In freelancing, you can tread on the spot all this time, and without feedback from other developers, you may not understand that you are writing very bad code and using irrational solutions.

Answer 8

The learning process will take much longer.
Freelance is sales and management. The rest is secondary.

Answer 9

Most just don’t recommend starting with freelancing, because they tried it themselves and couldn’t break into the market, it’s easier to go to an uncle who will pay, albeit a little, but heaps.
If you really study day and night for 8 months - perhaps you have discipline and freelancing is right for you, just be careful, it can be addictive.
Well, + what you call "remote work" (as I understand it, you mean a permanent full-time contract) can also be found on a freelance exchange, here the line is blurred. And this is where reviews from smaller projects within the framework of this exchange come in handy.

Answer 10

1. Remote without experience - you can try. If you show good knowledge and zeal, they will help you to the extreme with relocation. Therefore, I do not advise hiring to ignore.
2. It is possible to start with freelancing, but it is much more difficult - the responsibility is higher (there are no mentors - there are no experienced people who will prompt in an unsolvable situation, there is no leadership layer as a damper in case of failure). Books and forums help either not always, or for a long time. It's all stress. Constant stress is health problems, professional burnout, or the beginning of avoiding this very responsibility (partly from here a bunch of guys in the market who suddenly merge in the middle of a project). If there are no options at all - try, fill the bumps. Ideally, move to a larger city.

Answer 11

If you need money urgently, do it.
Cons:
Lack of feedback from experienced colleagues, which you could get working in an office (where there are such experienced colleagues, of course).
This feedback saves you years of career development time.
Freelancer from scratch with 10 years of experience = Junu with 2 years of experience in an office with experienced colleagues.

Answer 12

Great people achieved success without asking someone else's opinion, did not listen to anyone. If you want to take it and do it to you, no one forbids anything, the Internet is such a thing where you can do whatever you want! if you want to make money on the site, try to think and transform your ideas not into freelancing, but into something sensible, for example, create some kind of startup, website, forum, game, mini-game, e-book, even if it’s something small that won’t bring you a lot of money , but you will know that this is your creation and you created it yourself, and then believe people will pull themselves up and think the most important thing is not how you can earn a lot of money and go to live in Moscow or Los Angeles, you need to do your job with pleasure, but freelancing is so temporary and especially a lot of money as a beginner or a middle-class specialist, you won’t earn much there, You will be taken advantage of like everyone else. "Try to transform your ideas into one thing, don't take on everything at once, create something one and big beautifully."
Now you will see positive comments under my answer, because such people are trying to confuse others so that your motivation and faith are gone. I’m in the ass too, maybe you’re not like that, but I still have a small child, I’m thinking about how to transform my ideas, but so far a good idea hasn’t come to my head, there were dreams in which I allegedly created something great on the Internet, but they were so smeared that trying to remember something is very difficult.1

Answer 13

Freelancing is the only place to start. Strange "recommendations"