Where do you start?

[Zesiul]

I'm about to finish college in the winter and need hit the ground running by having some sort of freelance income by that point. Other than living expenses there all the tuition I'll owe, and my part time job an't gonna exactly cover it. So I setup one of my Deathline goals to get some form of a job by November, right now I'm building up some sort of a portfolio but I have no clue where to even begin.

So those of you who have jobs, or had, I ask you. Where is a good place to start?