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Most community college teachers are part time and don't make very
much money. They get almost nothing in benefits when they're part
time and get paid about $1000 per class. My cousin's husband has a
Phd in Economics and spent three years trying to get a job as a full
time college teacher. He applied to every position in the US at
both community colleges and full universities. Literally, if there
was an econ teaching job at a college in the US, he applied. He
probably applied to multiple colleges in every state, including
Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, and in Canada.

Luckily he was able to get a job in the private sector with his
economics degree while he searched for a teaching job, and he did
the part time college teaching thing online. Economists actually
make good money in the private sector, so he wasn't hurting for
money, but he would have had a hard time of it if he had a Phd in
History or English. Anyways, they lived in California, and he
finally got a full time professor's job at a community college in
upstate New York. They moved there last fall.

I guess my point is that teaching full time in college is a very
hard field to get into. You're not going to get a job at the
community college near your home and if you're serious about it, you
will need be ready to move, maybe to the middle of nowhere. My
cousin was used to living in the Bay Area, and now they live in a
frozen rural town, so they made some sacrifices for his career.
You're probably better off staying with teaching high school.

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