Balancing Your Life (Boat) In The Tenure Stream

This paper presents a narrative describing my experiences in choosing to leave a career in consulting engineering to accept a tenure stream faculty position in Civil Engineering Technology, my adjustment to the demands of this position on my personal life, and my attempts to balance my professional and personal activities. The decision to accept this position was a realization of one of my career goals. The decision involved not only me, however, but my wife as well. Her support in accepting this position and moving to Johnstown, along with our striving to prioritize and organize our time have been significant in my attempt to achieve a balance between my professional and personal life. Also discussed is the use of a first-person narrative format and my reasons for using that format in this paper, rather than the conventional expository form of writing, so common in professional journals and conference proceedings.