Click HERE to view the fourth installment of the series, “I want to be a professional Arrow when I grow up: Pathways and opportunities for a new workforce,” in which panelists Jeni Cross, Director of the Team Science Core, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and Director, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at Colorado State University; Stephan Fiore, Director of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory and Pegasus Professor with the University of Central Florida's Cognitive Sciences Program in the Department of Philosophy and School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training; and Holly Hapke, geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist based at the UC Irvine and Director of Research Development for the School of Social Sciences, describe their experiences as traditional tenure-track faculty members pursuing transdisciplinary team-based research. They discuss some of the common themes experienced in these types of positions, including the promises and perils of joint appointments; dealing with academic branding while having an interdisciplinary degree; interdisciplinary departments or research centers as academic homes; and being transdisciplinary in a discipline-based department.