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Any Professional with Experience can build a Successful Consulting business, in their own area of expertise. Why continue in a career that seems to be going nowhere? Why let bosses decide your earnings, career growth and peace of mind. You can take back control of your Life, Earnings, and Time. This is the promise of BYOB - Be Your Own Boss a book on entrepreneurship written by Dr C. Venugopal. The most challenging phase of a professional's career comes 10 or 15 years into it. The professional is probably in a mid-management position, with subordinates looking for leadership and bosses for performance. Promotion and growth slow down as there are fewer slots above. The stress of keeping up with ambitious climbers makes this stage traumatic and stressful. This is compounded by changing lifestyles that create financial pressures of mortgages and loans. Combined with pressure from the office, the worry of job loss, and the fear of obsolescence, mid-career is stressful for most professionals. The worst is that the mid-career professional gets a sinking feeling of not being in control. Actions are judged and evaluated by somebody above, however senior they are. Credit for good work is grudgingly given, mistakes, always blamed on them. Their good ideas have to battle with budgets and politics to see the light of day. In this book, Venugopal explains, in a conversational style, with stories and anecdotes, the process of starting and building a successful business.