I got a job as an instructor...

[sanantone]

Teaching is one of those things where it doesn't seem to matter as much where you got the experience but that you have it.
I know PhD's that have taught at CC as adjuncts to start and moved up to "real" colleges Like Rutgers and I know MAA's that have started teaching at a CC and taught as adjunct at 3 others before finally getting full professorship at another.

Where you start doesn't matter get the experience and be a good teacher get good reviews on Ratemyprofessor.com so kids want to be in your class and it will be an asset to whatever comes next.

I think it is pretty cool that you've landed yourself a teaching job. I would think that having teaching experience on a resume/CV would be a great thing, but I don't have experience in the academic world, so I can't say one way or another.

Regardless of how a future prestigious university may see it, you get out of a job you despise, and that has to be worth something. In any event, I say congratulations!

P.S. I just thought of something. I do have a friend, who has an MBA from Bryant, that started teaching night courses at a CC. This gave him the experience to land a full time position teaching at Johnson & Wales.

I wish I could have gotten a job at a community college. It would be several steps up from a nationally accredited, vocational school that is the butt of local jokes and advertises during court shows and tacky talk shows. I applied to a few openings at the local community colleges. I think the problem is my degree in security studies. It's a sub-field of international relations, and international relations is a sub-field of political science. Most people don't seem to know that. They would probably hire me to teach homeland security, but there are never any openings in that department.