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Inter-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, cross-disciplinary research is much lauded and encouraged in academia. The reason is clear: cross-fertilization of ideas is undeniably a good thing. Interdisciplinary research allows for disciplines and cultures to borrow research methods, practices, approaches, and results from one another. After all, scholars do not do research in a vacuum \cite{Pepe}. And as the boundaries separating departments and disciplines fade, collaboration among them naturally increases. While interdisciplinary research is indeed a \textit{good} thing for academia, I would like to argue that it is a \textit{bad} choice to jumpstart an academic career.  Here's my story, for example. Since my undergraduate degree and all the way through my graduate studies and my postdoc, I was pushed to take classes in other departments. My undergraduate degree was in \textbf{Astrophysics} and I took two or three classes in Computer Science. This is rather normal. A lot of physicists are (and need to be) good at computers. I liked these classes enough to apply for a Masters in \textbf{Computer Science} which I completed right after my Bachelor. I then worked two research jobs. The first at CINECA, Italy, where I did Astronomical Data Visualization (a great way to blend Astrophysics and Computer Science). The second one at CERN, Switzerland, where I worked with data repositories, digital libraries, natural language processing, Open Access. In my years at CERN, I started getting more and more interested in data and information science. I applied and got into a Ph.D. program in \textbf{Information Studies} at UCLA. Anything that falls under the umbrella of Data Science and Information Science is intrinsically interdisciplinary and the classes I took at UCLA where as interdisciplinary as it gets. During my first two years as a Ph.D. I took classes such as \textbf{Computational Social Science, Critical studies of architecture, Geographic thought and the concept of belonging, Thinking, Formal Modeling and Simulations in Social Sciences,} and \textbf{Data and media arts}. (\href{http://albertopepe.com/phdclasses}{Full list here}.)  A pretty mixed bag, huh? While it all sounds a bit eccentric, these were the most formative, nurturing years of my life (I will discuss this in detail in a separate blog post).