A work at home job is one that is usually held a minimum of once per week and is consider to be eventually a primary job. Some people currently work every single day and now make a full time living while working at home.

The following is some updates/reports. It just gives you an idea of what real life work at home activity looks like. It gives you a guide to work with.

Some Reports

Some of the statistics in this section are quite told-from the 1990 census. However, it can give you an idea of how the percentages of people who did work in this capacity increased over the past two decades.

According to 1990 Census reports about 60% of individuals who work at home are not explicitly paid for it. Furthermore of the 40% of people who are compensated for their work at home many of them worked fewer than 8 hours per week.

Only about 14.5% of the people who did work at home worked 35 hours a week or more. Therefore, during these decades this kind of employment was basically considered a part time income.

That is, unless someone actually did make it big. That is, in the event someone actually made it big on one of those scam business opportunities.

However, it should be noted that as far as home businesses are concerned they are not all scams. You can make a very lucrative and steady part time or full time income. You could in the 1990s and you can now.

However, it is a matter of knowing what opportunities you should nail when. It helps if there has been a fair amount of test marketing or research done on opportunities. This would give you a clearer indication of how well you would do if you were to pursue a certain opportunity.

Other Updates

People who work at home are often self-employed and run their own home-based business. It is estimated that more than half of home-based business owners are under-insured.

The independent insurance agents of America (IIAA) say nearly 40% of those they surveyed are uninsured. If a person is insured a typical homeowners policy usually only covers damages up to $2,500, and a homeowner policy will not cover all damages.

For instance, if a delivery person comes to the door it may not cover all accidents. One case in point is the example of the delivery person that slips and falls when delivering a package.

This work at home opportunity was taken from a job posting on Workingmums.co.uk. It is presented here in an effort to show you what types of real opportunities are out there at the moment.

The Job

There is a work at home job posting from the Phillips Company that is currently posted. This is a company that is located in South East Wales.

It is a full time Sales Professional position that requires 35 to 40 hours a week. It is a sales position that offers a company salary plus benefit.

The Responsibilities

A Sales Professional at Phillips Lighting would help introduce customers to energy efficient light bulbs. Your role if you were hired in this position would be to convince both businesses and consumers of the value of new lighting technologies and solutions.

Responsibilities also include the following:

• Leading the acquisition of new national cross segment accounts
• Cultivation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships with representatives of client accounts
• Serve as a representative to clients and customers
• Contribute to new sales projects by offering new strategies for implementation

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate for this Sale Professional with a work at home option is for the person to have a university degree or equivalent in Architecture, Business, and Marketing. It also is important that individuals who take on this job have the following qualifications and skills:

• General concern for the environment and for conservation
• Natural inclination towards art, architecture, and interior design
• Understanding of key industry market structures and business models
• A proven track record in sales or business development
• Relevant sales and professional experience

The Company

Phillips operates all over the world, including South East England. In all, this company employs about 116,000 people in 60 countries. In 2009, Euro sales were at 23 billion.

One of the main roles of Phillips is to offer energy efficient lighting. They also provide a variety of other solutions such as cardiac and acute care equipment as well as home health care technologies.

One of the objectives of this organization is to help is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. One way to do this is to use the energy efficient light bulbs that consume less energy. This is one major selling point used to convince people on a large and small scale that Phillips lighting systems are the ideal choice.

Note

This is a very brief description of the Phillips work at home opportunity posted online. You should probably contact the company through the appropriate channels of communication to learn more.