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I grew my side gig into a $2M business after 20 years at IBM

After 20 years at IBM, I changed careers and started a side gig. My small business is now a 7-figure compan...

Tarun Mottlia

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I grew my side gig into a $2M business after 20 years at IBM
Image: Becky DeGrossa spent 20 years in Big Tech before opening her business, CounselingWise. Matthew DeFeo for BI

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Becky DeGrossa, a 66-year-old who is founder of CounselingWise from Boulder, Colorado. It's been edited for length and clarity. I earned a degree in computer science from Cal Poly and then spent 20 years in total at IBM, leaving the company in 2003. When I left, I was a consultant and managing principal, and I was supposed to be leading the team up the hill — but I just really wasn't…

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