OK, so after much stress and being messed around by the company I'm working for I'm starting to give serious consideration to going freelance. I've thought about this for a long time I suspect I would be much happier working for myself. I've actually got a couple of ideas for products which might be marketable but they'd take time to develop and I'd need to carry on working in the meantime. I'd like to take on some freelance projects rather than work directly for a company or contract (though contracting would come in a fairly close second)

So assuming I go down this route, how do I find paid projects to work on to keep the mortgage paid. I'm sure some of my fellow forumites must have gone down this route before, but how did you get started?