First freelance or contract gig?
As Software Engineers, it might be bit difficult starting out with first freelance gig or contract job. I was able to secure one in college with about 50k/month for about 4months working as a back end engineer for an Indian SaaS company and international client. Great learning and great pay for a newbie. Also if you have a full time job and freelance gig. how do you juggle between both? Keeping in mind you also need to take personal time and time for fitness.
Mostly networking, some friend of mine told me about him doing the same(I think he got it from LinkedIn), I asked him to forward my resume and got the contract job.
Many people are eager to hire someone in college whom they can pay half the salary of fresher and get same work๐๐๐