My impression (and I may be wrong) is that you need to be pretty connected or have some a very niche skill-set to be able to freelance for a living. I'm a full

My impression (and I may be wrong) is that you need to be pretty connected or have some a very niche skill-set to be able to freelance for a living. I'm a full-time C++ programmer and I'd love to freelance, but I wouldn't know where to even start. Maybe this makes more sense for web developers