问HN：自我销售
我正在经历一段艰难的时期。
我缺乏自我推销的技能。
我在沟通方面很困难，甚至连这篇帖子也是如此。感觉就像我在用100倍的放大镜看东西，无法找到清晰的信息。我曾经花了几个小时写简历，却得不到任何有价值的内容。
缺乏教育和实际经验是原因之一。我没有获得面试机会，而当我获得面试时，面试官也没有留下深刻的印象。我的错。
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当其他人公开工作并发送数百份简历时，我却在私下里工作，几年都没有发送任何简历。整整几年！
现在我试图务实地做自由职业者，而我之前尝试过两次。虽然有很多我轻松能胜任的工作，但每当我尝试撰写个人简介或过去的项目时，我就陷入无尽的挣扎。
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具体来说，虽然我没有完成任何重大项目，但我确实有很多之前的软件，解决了相关的问题。我可以展示问题、代码和结果。例如，从PDF提取数据 -> 脚本 -> SQLite数据库。我不需要说：
“这是我做的一个未完成项目的一部分，等等。”
我可以直接展示它，并说我参与了这个项目。无论是合同工作还是我自己的代码，它都能完成其功能，而当我承接工作时，我也可以展示这些结果（如果客户同意的话）。
但我就是无法开始行动。
已经过去了很多年。这就像一个渐近线，我无法突破。我只需要突破一次，获得一些动力。对于这个具体的（自由职业）问题，有什么建议吗？
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I'm having a hard time.<p>I lack the skills to sell myself.<p>I have a hard time communicating, even this post. It feels like I'm looking through 100x zoom, I can't find a clarity of message. I used to sit to write résumés for hours and hours, to come up with nothing of value.<p>Lack of schooling and lack of real-world experience contributed. I didn't get interviews, and when I did, they weren't impressed. Mia culpa.<p>---<p>While others worked publicly and sent out hundreds of résumés, I worked privately and sent nothing for years. Years!<p>Now I'm trying to be practical and freelance, which I've tried twice before. There are a lot of jobs that I have the skills for easily, but when I try to write my profile, or my past projects, I spin out endlessly.<p>---<p>Concretely, although I don't have any major projects shipped, I do have a lot of previous software with relevant problems I solved. I can show the problem, the code, and the results. For example, extraction from a PDF -> Script -> SQLite database. I don't have to say:<p>"This was part of an unfinished project I did, blah blah blah."<p>I can just show it and say I worked on it. Whether contracted or my own code, it does what it does, and as I'm contracted for jobs, I can show those results too (if the client is ok with it.<p>But I just. Can't. Get. Moving.<p>It's been so many years. It's like an asymptote, I can't break through it. I just need to break through it once, get some momentum. For this concrete (freelancing) problem, any advice?