Thanks for that, I might work on some of those
I don't know anyone. My mom moved us out of London when I was 4 and I grew up in a little town in the country. Which would have been great if I'd grown up wanting to be a farmer, but honestly I wish she'd stayed in the city. I'd probably be a lot further along in my career by now!
I'm 25, and since I have no luck either, I figure I gotta start trying to make stuff happen somehow.
You don't have to know anyone now, either. Join some professional associations. You definitely meet people in your field that way! I have a friend trying to break into entertainment law. She doesn't have any friends or relatives already in the field, so she joined the local association and is making contacts. You really do have to be interested in mutually-beneficial relationships though. "You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Not "You there! Scratch my back and then I'll forget what you did for me!"
Another method is letting your friends and family (and all their friends) know what you're looking for. I got two ongoing paid gigs because two acquaintances (a friend of a friend, and a classmate) could no longer hold certain freelancing obligations, thought I'd be suitable, and referred me. Turns out I was very suitable indeed, and now command a higher rate than my original referrers did.

It doesn't have to be a weekly email begging for a job. Just letting people know what you're generally up to can be enough. One of my gigs is updating a website for someone (and I talked him into redesigning it, for a fee

) , and I was literally the only designer the referrer knew who could read even basic HTML.
Oh yeah, this is the hate thread.

I hate how my fiancé is in such pain from his broken wrist.

It's a small break, but it's causing such agony!
Also, the hospital he went to has only paid parking.

Kick us while we're down, why don't you!
I'm sure I'll have much more to gripe about once we receive the bill for the ER.
