[achirdo]

Get out there and take every single job you can get. You will learn more about success, failure, what pays and what doesn't, your preferred customer, and cost of business doing it this way over a course of a year than any amount of advice. Clientele is different in every area, see what all is out there.

In my first year I did some jobs where I made a killing and some where I was working for peanuts. I underestimated one job so bad I ended up working for like $4 an hour for 2 months. That was rough. Learned a lot and I don't make those mistakes anymore. It was for a "big, important client" took a while to realize how toxic they were to my business before I told em to pound sand.