Others are booking travel arrangements for clients or providing mentor services to business people. Home-based business people account for about 6 percent of the membership of the Bremerton Area Chamber of Commerce. But the trend is even more pronounced at the Silverdale Chamber of Commerce, where roughly 12 percent of the members are home-based businesses. The chamber organized a support group for them almost four years ago. Since then, the group has grown and the number of home-based businesses in the chamber has grown.
People working for themselves point to freedom as a perk of their jobs.
Some of them, like Moran and wedding consultant Amy Hudson, wanted a better schedule for their children. The most important thing was a flexible schedule. Rosanne Newton operates Travel Wise in a Seabeck home office. She started the business after taking early retirement at Keyport. I feel like I'm more creative this way.