When I joined Northrop Grumman/TASC in 2001 as a web designer, my direct supervisor (“section manager” in company lingo), Jim, was a man in his 50s who made a lasting impression on me at my first performance review. During the session, he spent a lot of time asking me what I wanted to achieve in my career, near-term and long-term. He then gave me a long list of things that he advised me to do in order to achieve these things; all very specific, all very doable, and all of the