University is known for many to be one of the most important, significant and enjoyable parts of an individuals life/journey. Whilst at university, everyone is working on their own individual path to finding their future. Being part of this, and being able to provide your experience and skills to them is incredibly rewarding. Perhaps you can teach a subject that you love or something that you feel really driven and passionate about, and in doing this you will be driving others to reach their goals and careers, and maybe even changing views and creating new passions for others along the way.

With most universities comes flexible working. Many departments allow lecturers to work from home when they are not required to teach on campus, leaving more time for family commitments as it is less of a "nine to five" role. As well as this term time dates vary and can allow a lot more holidays than in other professions, which can also be seen as favourable.

Teaching is thought to be a respectable and awarding job. Teaching in university is very much different from that of teaching in schools. At university it becomes a highly enjoyable task for the teacher when he/she gets a chance to talk on their favorite subject for an hour or more. Universities now a days provide training to teachers in order to enhance their pedagogical skills. This training makes their tasks more enjoyable for them when they see the positive response from the students.
The focus or university teachers is mainly on research. In this way they keep in touch with new research trends and latest results. Spending time in young people makes the teacher think like young even when they get old. They see the youth getting enthusiastic about their subjects, this makes the teacher feel better.

Communicating with and contributing to the professional development of young talented people could be a strong driver for a university teaching career. Therefore teachers who would like to maximise their impact might consider working at universities. Also, in comparison with independent individual research centers, universities usually have better chances for obtaining funding for research purposes, and for teachers with ambition to supervise research and promote innovation there could be more opportunities if they work at universities.

At the same time, it is common for universities to get involved in global staff exchange programs and teachers could enjoy spending a semester or an academic year working at a partner institution overseas. Overall unless there is a major economic crisis and reforms require significant reduction of public employees that might include public universities, university teaching positions are more stable and economically beneficial if compared with teaching on individual basis and in private commercial courses.