This paper shows part of the results of a research project: The Impact of Social Change in Higher Education Staff Professional Life and Work (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, SEJ2006-01876). The main aim of this project was to explore and understand how scholars establish a dialogue, resist, adapt themselves or adopt changes, in the process of constructing their professional identities. As the members of the research team were scholars ourselves, teaching and carrying out research in Spanish universities, we started this research by writing our own autoethnographies. As a result, we developed nine autoethnographies before to proceed with 24 life professional histories which give a complex and in-depth account of senior and junior scholars’ journeys into their process of constructing their professional identity and working lives in a rapidly changing world. This paper starts by giving a context to the research project and arguing the need for conducting autoethnographies and life histories as example of narrative approach account. It goes on to discuss the process itself of writing autoethnographies and professional life histories. We conclude with the lessons learnt around the dilemmas on writing autoethnographies and life histories following a narrative research approach.