My very biased advice is leverage your public work, and just go freelance. You have to develop some other skills like networking if you want to avoid the meat m

My very biased advice is leverage your public work, and just go freelance. You have to develop some other skills like networking if you want to avoid the meat market freelancing job sites… oh and don’t do websites unless there’s something other than the website involved, or they agree up front to a minimum hour per week maintenance deal (like they will pay 1 billable hour per week regardless of if they talk to you at all, to cover your time spent keeping on top of patches and security) there’s so little value add in website building that you quickly find people constantly using up your time asking for trivial changes that without a maintenance deal will start to make the customer resent paying for them and it’s not worth the headaches… There’s a lot of good money out there for people with experience who are willing to help small businesses who have sufficient IT skills to have reached the point where they want to automate and improve their workflows and management processes, who don’t feel the off the shelf products like excel, Airtable, etc, are a good fit or do the job they need, and who are willing to either pay either hourly for the work or enough per contact that it’s worth the risk you’ve estimated wrong… This is obviously much harder in the USA due to the symbiotic (being generous about the positive connotations) nature of employment and healthcare.