In our working lives, we are all flying our personal career rocket through space and time and it's up to us to choose which direction to fly in and how high to travel. The book Riding the Rocket: How to Manage Your Modern Career explores in more detail the process of flying our rocket and making a success of our career. But before we can ignite the engines and blast off into the stratosphere we first need to build our rocket, which leads us to this quick-read companion e-book. It contains unique content and is designed to get us thinking about our rocket, challenges our underlying assumptions and previews the main book.