I started out on Elance many years ago and to be honest it's pretty tough to make a decent living off. If I were you I'd try getting out and about locally and

I started out on Elance many years ago and to be honest it's pretty tough to make a decent living off. If I were you I'd try getting out and about locally and meet people face to face. Lots of developers have too much work that they'd be happy to load off onto someone else who's competent. Try looking for local developer meetups or user groups. You say you're based in Europe but you don't mention where, some places are better than others for finding work. Spain is pretty bad for example from what I hear whereas the UK is pretty good. Also in a particular country the number of jobs and quality will vary from city to city. You could do worse than go to one of the places where there is a lot of development work, getting a courier job or anything and meet people until you get the work you want.