New to MM and I was wondering how does someone start with gigs? Please feel free to comment on my picks and ill do the same.

welcome. check out the casting/travel section. and you can tag/message photographers directly if you want to work with them.

Welcome to MM.  Here are some links. 
Read this: https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=18926
This: https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=117121
This: http://www.ripoffreport.com
And this: www.newmodels.com

Network:
Here: https://www.modelmayhem.com/casting/search_casting
Here: https://www.modelmayhem.com/browse
Here: https://www.modelmayhem.com/announce
and here: https://www.modelmayhem.com/f.php