[codegeek]

"Find work, don't let it find you"

Why not let it find you as well ? If you have experience and the right skillset, you will usually be found more often than you finding work yourself. I usually get good gigs in my industry by getting found a lot more than finding.

[anovikov]

I agree to this. All of out-of-the-blue invitations to do something proved to be a scam, one or the other sort of - most plainly visible, but others more painful. So i never reply for job offers i get unexpectedly from people i don't know, and i never work for anyone writing to me in Russian.

[ErrantX]

Yeh, that didn't come out quite right.

I mean; a lot of freelancers seem to write a nice looking website and hope that some SEO magic will bring in work.

[codegeek]

Yes agreed on the SEO magic point. It takes a whole lot more.

[pawelwentpawel]

If you have a good network and get jobs from referrals then the job eventually finds you.