How do you find your day gigs? I've tried to do this, but the time required to do it (via reaching through my network) has really been a lot. More than expecte

How do you find your day gigs? I've tried to do this, but the time required to do it (via reaching through my network) has really been a lot. More than expected. And, then I tried to go outside of my network, and I was just overwhelmed with the repsponses. I couldn't easily discern which opportunities were worth the time. Is there someone I can hire to be my freelancing mentor?