Give me your brutal advice! iam struggling to choose one freelance service am I overthinking this?

I’m 18 and pretty new to freelancing and honestly I feel like I keep changing direction

I started with copywriting then got a client where I did social media + copywriting and after that I started moving toward becoming a Marketing & Operations VA because I wanted to try different things and thought this will give me a variety of experience.

but now I’m realizing that Marketing & Operations VA is probably way too broad when I’m actually trying to get clients

my goal right now isn’t to figure out my lifelong career I just want to make consistent money with my skills, build real skills get good at something and figure out what I actually enjoy along the way. the problem is I’m very multipassionate and honestly I’m not even sure I genuinely like any one thing yet 😭

so now I’m thinking of just picking ONE thing for the next month and testing social media management for agencies (because I do have social proof with this)

not because I think this is my forever career but because I feel like I need to stop constantly changing what I’m offering and actually give one thing a proper shot

but I also don’t know if I’m being smart or just finding another thing to jump into

so if you’ve been freelancing for a while I’d genuinely appreciate some brutal honesty am I overthinking this?

am I making a stupid mistake by trying to specialize when I’m still figuring myself out?

or is picking one service for 30 days actually the right move?

feel free to tell me if my thinking is flawed I genuinely don’t care I just want to stop spinning in circles and actually make progress

Posted Aug 13, 2026, 8:36 PM UTC

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