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By Hans Glint - September 2006

About 20.7 million persons usually do some work at home as part of their
primary job, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department
of Labor reported in a study based on 2004 numbers.
These workers, who reported working at home at
least once per week, account for about 15 percent of total nonagricultural
employment.

Occupation and Industry

The likelihood of working at home varies greatly by occupation. This is
not surprising, since some jobs are more readily done away from the workplace
than others. Almost 30 percent of workers in management, professional, and
related occupations reporte working at home. Nearly two-thirds
of persons who usually worke at home are employed in these occupations.
About 1 in 5 sales workers usually worke at home. In contrast, only 3 per-
cent of workers in production, transportation, and material moving occupations
performe job-related work at home. From an industry perspective, workers
employed in professional and business services, in financial activities, and
in education and health services are among the most likely to work at home.

Pay Status

Of the 13.7 million wage and salary workers who usually do some work at
home in 2004, about 3.3 million, or 1 in 4, has a formal arrangement with
their employer to be paid for the time they put in at home. About half of
these paid home workers spend 8 hours or more per week working at home, and
about 1 in 7 put in 35 hours or more per week at home. On average, those
with a formal arrangement to be paid for their work time at home logg
about 19 hours per week at home.

About three-fourths of wage and salary workers who do job-related work
at home on a regular basis do so without a formal arrangement to be paid
for this work. Of these 10.2 million workers are just taking work home from
the job, about 22 percent regularly work 8 hours or more per week at
home. Workers doing unpaid job-related activity at home average about
7 hours per week at home.

Among those with a formal arrangement to be paid for work at home, more
than half work in management and professional jobs, and another 1 in 5
work in sales occupations. Managers and professionals account for
about four-fifths of those just taking work home from the job. School-
teachers and instructors (excluding college) especially are likely
to take work home, with 2.8 million--or about half of all teachers--
reporting such activity. About 1 in 10 persons
who put in time at home without a formal arrangement worke in sales jobs.

Self-Employed Persons and Home-Based Businesses

About one-third of persons who usually worke at home are
self-employed. Of the 7.0 million self-employed persons who worke at
home, two-thirds has a home-based business--that is, a business run from
their home and no other location. Nearly half of self-employed persons
with a home-based business work at least 8 hours per week at home, and
almost 22 percent are putting in 35 hours or more at home. On average, self-
employed persons with a home-based business work 25 hours per week at
home.

About 45 percent of self-employed persons with home-based businesses
are in management, professional, and related occupations.
Sixteen percent are employed in sales and related occupations. On an
industry basis, about 1 in 4 self-employed persons with a home-based
business work in professional and business services. Some 18 percent
of persons with a home-based business are employed in the construction
industry.

Demographics

Women and men are about equally likely to work at home, at
about 15 percent each. Whites (16 percent) were twice as likely as blacks
(8 percent) and Hispanics or Latinos (7 percent) to work at home, reflect-
ing, at least in part, the relatively higher concentration of whites in
occupations that are associated with work at home. Nearly 13 percent of
Asians work at home. The work-at-home rate for parents was
slightly higher than for persons without children. Married persons are
more likely to work at home than their non-married counterparts.

The likelihood of working at home increase with educational attainment.
Employed persons 25 years and over with a bachelor's degree or higher were
more than 6 times more likely to work at home as those without a high
school diploma (32 and 5 percent, respectively). Much of this disparity
is due to the varying occupational patterns of workers with different
levels of education. For example, college graduates are much more likely
to be employed in managerial and professional occupations--which have a
greater work-at-home rate--than are high school dropouts.

Reason for Job-Related Work at Home

Among wage and salary workers who are taking work home without a formal
arrangement to be paid for that work, the most common reason for working at
home is to "finish or catch up on work" (56 percent). An additional 32 per-
cent report that they work at home at least once per week because it
is the "nature of the job." For those paid to work at home as part of a
formal arrangement with their employer, the reasons are more varied. For
example, 40 percent report it is the "nature of the job," 24 percent
indicate that "business is conducted from home," 13 percent work at home
to "finish or catch up on work," and 9 percent arrange to work at home to
"coordinate work schedule with personal or family needs." Almost half of
all self-employed workers--and more than 60 percent of those with home-
based businesses--indicate the main reason for working at home is because
their "business is conducted from home." An additional 24 percent of self-
employed persons respond that it is the "nature of the job" to work at
home.

Use of Electronic Equipment

About 8 in 10 of those engaged in job-related work at home
use a computer as part of their work at home, and just slightly fewer use
a telephone. About 70 percent of all persons who usually worke at home
make use of the Internet or e-mail to work at home. In general, wage and
salary workers who are paid to work at home as part of a formal arrange-
ment were are likely to use electronic equipment at home than those who
were just taking work home from the job.

Frequency of Work at Home

The total number of persons who reporte that they worke at home --
regardless of how often they engage in home-based work activity--was 25.4
million (18.6 percent of total nonagricultural employment). This includes,
in addition to those who usually worke at home, 1.9 million persons who
worke at home at least once every 2 weeks, 1.6 million who worked at home
at least once per month, and about 880,000 who worke at home less than
once per month. While the total number of persons who reported some work
at home is about the same as previous studies, the share
working at home at least once per week.

I'm pretty sure you have come across hundreds (if not thousands) of "Work at Home" ads all over the place. In fact, you can find these work at home ads posted anywhere; for instance, you've probably seen them on telephone and street light poles around your neighborhood, your local daily newspaper, and ultimately on the World Wide Web (the Internet). So what's the deal with this "work at home" business? Is it just hype or can you really work from home as the ads claim? Read on for the truth you must know about working at home jobs.

First of all, there are two facts about working at home: There are legitimate work at home opportunities, but there are also work at home scams just as in most cases in this life. Being able to work from the comfort of your home might sound like a very interesting idea; and in fact, it is. After all, who wouldn't like to work at home and at the same time earn huge amounts of money? But then again, the work at home world is full of hype, so as a work at home job seeker, you must be extra cautious in not falling for a possible work at home scam.

Unfortunately, there are always scammers looking to rip off honest, hard-working people through very sneaky ways. These scammers take advantage of people's desire to work at home as a way to better their financial situation. The main reason these scammers are successful in taking people's money is because many times work at home jobs seekers become so excited about the great idea of being able to make money working from home that they become distracted and forget about the possibility of falling victim to a scammer. I mean, what scam would work if there were no willing victims? Since work at home schemes are appealing to many people who are just starting to get their feet wet in this industry (especially online), they can be very easy victims to experienced scammers.

You'll find that many of the "work at home" jobs you see being offered do not tell you the whole story behind their scheme. They intentionally leave out many facts including the fact that the work at home job you plan to apply for may cover several hours of work without pay! Sometimes, they don't even reveal all the costs required from you if you want to get that work at home job you've seen on the ads.

The truth of the matter is that many (if not most) of these work at home schemes require you to invest some of your own money beforehand. But why? Their usual answer to this question is that the money you give them will be spent on supplies or equipment (newspaper ads, envelopes, photocopies, paper, stamps, etc.) that will be needed to do the job. Sometimes they'll also tell you the money may also be used to pay for a especial "tutorial" that these work at home companies require you to take as well as the instructions you need in order to get started using a particular software involved in such work at home job. Therefore, generally speaking, these work at home schemes don't always guarantee you will earn big money, not at all! In fact, you could end up in the opposite side - losing all of your money with nothing in return :-(

There have been several people who have fallen victim to these sort of work at home scams. People who simply want to earn an extra income from the comfort of their homes find themselves cheated by con artists who take advantage of their financial situation. No doubt there are legitimate companies out there offering real work at home jobs for those interested. Unfortunately, work at home scams abound and it has become harder to find legitimate work at home jobs the easy way. So, if you are planning on trying one of those work at home jobs you've seen posted somewhere on some ads, do your research carefully to avoid falling victim to the scammers!

About the Author:

Hector Morales is the owner of http://www.WorkAtHomeTips.ebizgear.com. Learn about other tips like the truth behind Free Work at Home Stuffing Envelopes opportunities at http://www.WorkAtHomeTips.ebizgear.com/Free-Work-at-Home-Stuffing-Envelopes.htm and Legit Work at Home Jobs at http://www.WorkAtHomeTips.ebizgear.com/Legit-Work-at-Home-Jobs.htm

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So you want to start your own business? Well, why don't you? This is not a hard question. I'm certain you have barriers to following your dream or you would have done it already. We need to examine what is standing in your way and coax you into dipping your toe into your dream water. Most of the time, keeping you from doing your own thing is fear. Well, fear is good. It keeps you real, but don't let it plan your life or paralyze you.

I have enjoyed owning several different businesses in my life time and hope to develop and run many more. I love the excitement of building a dream into a reality. It can be challenging, frustrating, time consuming, moneymaking or a dismal failure. You learn from each experience.

I have so many little ventures in my head to try in the future. You need to acknowledge the creativity in yourself, decide what interests you and how you want to spend your time. I read one time that if you do what you love, success will follow. I'm not sure that success is always measured in dollars... we can weigh happiness and contentment also.

I want to assure you there are issues to worry about. If you are half of a two-paycheck family and your regular earnings are needed to keep your family comfortable, you do have to recognize the risk to venturing out on your own. If you are a stay at home Mom and want to contribute to the household but have short human beings to care for, you need to plan carefully so you don't end up burning the candle at both ends, therefore jeopardizing the reason you wanted to stay home with your children.

Let's explore a few ideas and you will see that it is possible to work for yourself if that is what to really want to do.

Think of something you do you enjoy. Can everyone do this thing as well as you can? Do they have time? Perhaps you can do it for them.

I love to knit. I REALLY love to knit. Once I made flyer type posters and hung them all over town wherever I could. Grocery stores, yarn shops, Laundromats, etc. On the poster I offered to give knitting lessons in my home at the client's convenience. I waited and because I am not a patient person, when I didn't get any calls I decided this was one of the ideas I wasn't going to brag to my friends about...and then...when I had given up hope, (two days after hanging the posters, I told you I was devoid of patience), I started getting calls. I got so many calls I had to go out and purchase a scheduling calendar. I scheduled the lessons when they were convenient for both the client and me.

I scheduled hour-long sessions and charged $25.00 for the first session, $10.00 for each lesson after that. No one questioned the fee and several said they were relieved it was so reasonable. I had no overhead and only profit in my pocket from showing other people how to do something I enjoyed doing so much. Word of mouth soon made it unnecessary to put up any more posters and I can be as busy or not as I choose. Although my husband is always supportive of my entrepreneurial endeavors, even he was surprised on a day I had three new students and two return students and made $95.00 sitting on my couch knitting.

I once decided our area could use a cleaning service for residential homes at a reasonable price. Now, previously when I said do what you love and you will be successful, I certainly don't want you to think I love to clean...quite the contrary, however, I do like to make money. I put two ads in our local newspaper. One ad advertised for someone to clean houses. The second ad offered reasonable fees to clean your home. The calls started coming in. When an applicant who wanted to clean called I would interview them, make sure I felt very comfortable with them and told them I would get back to them in a week. When folks called who wanted their home cleaned I would go to their home, see what they wanted done and gave them a price to do it. I left them a contract and asked them to think about my offer and call me back. The first week was a little disorganized and I questioned why I just didn't get a paper route. But, the second week things really began to smooth out and it just got busier and better from there. I soon had three ladies cleaning three houses a day. I could have even let this venture grow, as it wanted to take on a life of its own once it started. My part was to carry liability insurance (not expensive at all), advertise in the paper if I lost either a worker or a house and be certain that I always gave the customer a charge that would cover my expenses and pay my ladies with a little left over for me. I never cleaned a house. When I felt I had done this long enough and wanted to go on to something else, I offered the business to the first woman I had hired. She was one of my best and most dependable workers and the customers loved her. I knew she could keep things running and I could walk away from this baby feeling secure it was in good hands. My mistake, (I told you that you would learn even from your blunders), was that two years after I gave her the little cleaning business she sold it for $35,000. Hummmm, it never dawned on me I could have sold it. Duh…..

Can you install perennials and/or maintain them for folks. Everyone appreciates their yard looking well but few folks like getting dirt under their finger nails while swatting black flies.

Working moms stress over having to take time off for routine dental and doctor appointments. Are you in a position to do this for them? Can they call you if their child needs to be transported to a sitter because of illness during the day?

Can you bake? Well, get out that mixing bowl and stand back! People will pay you for making birthday cakes, cookies for school functions that need to look home made, and desserts for their parties. Word of mouth and return customers can keep you hopping.

Can you devote a Saturday morning to watching children while their mom, who has worked all week, does errands? Advertise yourself available to sit, on short notice from 9AM to 11:00AM on Saturday mornings. I'll bet you will make enough during those two hours a week to keep you free to spend time with your own children the rest of the week. Most working moms have sitters who don't do weekends.

Do you enjoy cleaning? I have found that even people who don't mind doing their day to day house work really dislike cleaning their bathrooms. Specialize in bathrooms. Yes, people will call on that ad. They will happily pay to have you shine their bathroom while they work. (And, Mom, you can usually take your baby with you to do this.)

The key is to think about what you love to do. If you're going to do something you don't enjoy just for the money you might as well work for someone else. Then test it. Is anyone interested in paying you to do this thing? Next, visualize how to make it happen. Can you do it during the day with children or in the evening when re-enforcements are home? Don't be afraid to try several things and fail. Eventually you will find a niche if you stay focused and realistic.

Dream a little and control the magic in your life.

About the Author:

Holly Burnham is a self admitted yarn addict. The addiction will be life long and there is no hope of remission. Her constant knitting has put the cleanliness of her home in peril. Her yarn stashes are havens for generations of moths. At the risk of contracting this affliction, visit her at http://www.knittinghaven.com

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The opportunity to work at home is wonderful. You often get a more flexible schedule, which allows you more time with your family. You don’t have to drive to work. All you have to do is negotiate your way through all the scams to find the real opportunities.

When your goal is a data entry work at home job, this is really not easy. When you look for them, you are more likely to run across scams or business opportunities than real jobs.

Work at home scams pervade the internet. Because typing skills are relatively common, scams involving data entry are quite common.

Let’s take a look at some of the things you are likely to see as you search for that legitimate job.

First of all, you are likely to see sites that charge you for a list of companies that hire people to work at home. A few do a very good, worth paying for job of this. Most do not.

You are also likely to see companies that talk about working at home doing data entry, earning big money, even giving screen shots of the money they’ve earned. Thousands of companies waiting to hire you. These aren’t really work at home jobs. They’re really describing affiliate marketing, a kind of home business.

No, there aren’t thousands of companies waiting to hire you. This is another version of the ad posting scheme. These programs are likely to tell you to post ads about the products on forums, classified ad sites and so forth. They may even recommend pay per click search engines.

While it is true that some people do earn money this way, most won’t. Do it wrong and you’ll quickly get banned from a lot of sites. And if you take the pay per click option you run the risk of losing more than you earn. Some do very well with pay per click, but many others don’t quite master the skills and lose money. But either way it’s a home business and not a job. I don’t recommend dealing with companies that lie to you about what their opportunity is about. If you can’t trust them there, why trust the advice you buy from them?

However, there are real data entry jobs out there. They are scarce, and competition to land them can be fierce. You have to find out when they’re hiring and have a resume that gets their attention. You need to have excellent typing skills.

Above all, you need to understand that it can take you months to land one of these jobs. It is not at all uncommon for a work at home job search to be longer than six months. Many of the jobs are simply that hard to land, even once you know they are available.

If you get to the interview, be realistic about the hours you can work. Companies want people who are serious about getting work done. Data entry jobs may or may not want you to set a schedule for yourself. You might have to commit to be available a certain number of hours a week, whether or not there is actual work to be done.

Data entry jobs pay on production. The faster you type, the more you can earn. As you search I suggest you take some time to work on your typing skills. At a minimum, get above 45 wpm and get very comfortable with the number pad on your keyboard. You might find yourself using it a lot.

While they aren’t easy to land, the real work at home jobs are out there. Work on your skills and your ability to spot scams as you search for the genuine opportunities available to you.

About the Author:

Stephanie Foster runs http://www.homewiththekids.com. You can see her list of legitimate data entry jobs on her site.

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Do you want to start a home based business? Is it your dream to run your own show so that you never again have to listen to your boss? If this sounds like you, you are in a group of thousands of other people. It is safe to say that in some point in everyone’s life they dream of running their own business. The benefits and advantages of having a home based business are many. If you are lucky enough to ever have this chance you should really revel in it. Remember, not everybody can be so lucky.

But you are probably asking yourself if you can really have success with a home business. The answer to this question is simple, yes. If you know what you are doing and take your time, you can have success running a home business. Unfortunately, it is not always as easy as it may seem. You are going to run into problems from the very beginning, and there are going to be times when you think about giving up.

The first thing that you need to do when setting up a home business is to make a decision on what you want to concentrate on. In other words, what is your business going to do? This is a question that can sometimes be hard to answer. The majority of people want to do something that they like, but at the same time they do not know how to get started. You need to remember that in order for your home business to be a success you have to like what you are doing. If you don’t like your home business idea, why move forward in the process? You will simply end up in the same situation that you are in with your current job.

Also, a successful home business needs time to grow. You should never think that you are going to take off within a couple days of opening up shop. It is going to take you a bit of time to get your bearings and take off. For this reason, patience is very important to the success of your home business. With patience you will be able to wait out the rough times that are bound to show up time and time again. No home business starts making big time money in the first day. But if you take your time you will get to where you want to be.

Overall, you can have a lot of success with a home business. It may not be easy at first, but as time goes by you will become comfortable with what you are doing. Sooner or later you will be making profits on your own.

If you like working online with your computer let me suggest taking a look at my 3 Step system (below). It's very easy to get started and and it will not break the bank ($10.00)! This is an incredibly easy system to start and you will get plenty of support...I guarantee it!

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To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://mlbest.3stepsecret.com View his Biography at: http://www.2mostop.ws

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