Good-Person
Captain Junkie
Since you are interested to be a freelancer , the most important thing is just for you to learn a skill but try as much as possible to avoid learning a saturated skill. This will prevent you from having to face a serious competition.
So, have you been working on Freelancer? Do you really think that it is worth trying? As far as I think, the site has much competition in there, but majority of the freelancer manage to get a job, right?