Your career is distinctly yours, not anybody else’s! Your background, college experience, and
your first job after college, strongly influence your career, but those experiences do not
necessarily define your career. No matter how, when, or where your exciting career leads
there are common challenges and opportunities along the way. Among these are the “Dual
Ladder and the transition from technical to managerial responsibilities. Other common factors include the critical importance of ideas, and how we get them, nurture them, and communicate them. But ideas lead to opportunities, and opportunities demand choices, so how do we choose? How do we benefit from feedback and criticism, and what is it like to quite literally and scientifically going where no one has gone before? Guide your personal adventure is with a moral and ethical compass as you accept the responsibility to bring fairness to your own corner of the world.