The study aims to reveal how faculty members perceive and feel about being a teacher at university, and make efforts to enhance their teaching responsibilities. The qualitative study was designed as a transcendental phenomenological study. The views of 25 faculty members at different universities in Turkey were obtained by interviewing method, and analysed through content analysis. The study found that the perceptions of being a teacher were mainly teacher- and student-centred. The faculty members got (un)happy/(in)competent depending on whether or not their students were learning, responding to questions, attending class, and paying attention to the course. They tried to enhance their teaching responsibilities through some informal ways such as getting peer assistance, and discussing with relatives/friends. After the findings were discussed in detail, some suggestions were presented for faculty members and for the researchers.