You are absolutely more capable than you think. I started freelancing with a decently sized startup based on the recommendation of a good friend who was an all

You are absolutely more capable than you think. I started freelancing with a decently sized startup based on the recommendation of a good friend who was an all out super star. I was looking for freelancing work and failing miserably at it. Someone at this startup asked my friend if they knew anyone for "some short term CSS projects". He sent them to me. I hadn't done CSS in over 2 years (and only then I barely knew enough to do squat) My friend reassured me that I could do it. He also encouragingly said "don't screw this up". I started the same day of the recommendation. The "short term projects" they originally wanted turned into 2.5 years and over 125k in income for me - about 15 hours / week. I've now gone on to get strong recommendations from every person of the team I started working with at the startup, as well as a new contract with some of them after they'd moved on to a new place. Something I believe strongly that helped me was I was totally obsessed with turning things around as fast as humanly possible. I responded to emails, calls, etc within an hour and would often complete a project in not much more time.