Many Peninsula folks are leaving the traditional workplace behind or are supplementing their income with home-based businesses.
"Any time you can find something you love doing and you do it for fun and people will pay you to do it, you're in a successful place," said Mike Henrie, owner of Aerial Photography Drone Productions.
In fact, because two-thirds of the businesses in York County are home based, the county teamed up with the York County Chamber of Commerce to help them start and grow. This year, Williamsburg, James City, Gloucester and Chesterfield also joined in to help with the annual home-based business resource fair and conference at the Williamsburg Hellenic Center that attracted 140 attendees in mid-November.
