Freelance work
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Make and maintain relationships with the following:
• Independent headhunters for the creative fields¹
• Local advertising and design agency creative directors
• Local advertising and design agency traffic managers²Anything else like Craigslist is a waste of your time and energy. As mentioned above, you'd be competing with the worst of the worst for the worst of the worst clients and projects.
Also: industry networking events are a good source of possible new work.
¹ Recruitment companies (not single, freelance/indpendent headhunters) are generally to be avoided. For example, Creative Circle are well-known for being utter cunts, by forcing you into a job you don't want, and paying peanuts. Find indpenedent headhunters on LinkedIn.
² In many agencies, traffic managers are often the ones responsible for booking freelancers, so they're really nice people to get to know. In smaller agencies, account minders do this, as well, so it's good to get to know at least a couple of that lot.