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Is the path of PhD -> industry -> tenured/permanent community college professor realistic in the current market (in engineering)?

I see many community college job postings list industry experience as desired, but the job market is so poor for tenure-track positions at 4 year universities that I'm curious if the overflow of applicants is changing hiring patterns with regard to industry vs academia experience. My question: are people with only industry experience after completing their PhD (no post-doc or 4 year adjunct positions) getting pushed out of the tenure-track community college professor market? Anecdotally I know PhD->industry->TT CC prof was possible in the past but the surrounding market seems to have changed since then. And taking the collective advice of this subreddit, I do not want to enter adjunct/temp hell unless only briefly to gain experience before moving to something permanent.
gpt
I've been teaching at a Florida CC/state college for 20 years. The chances of getting a full time continuing contract position with out adjunct experience is pretty close to zero. We are hiring very few full time teachers. The last one in our (nat sci) department was an adjunct for eight years. The new physics prof was full time at a  university and had published several articles. 

I've been on one hiring committee for a full timer. We placed heavy emphasis on teaching ability. The people who got to a second interview did a teaching demo. Let me say you better be a solid lecturer and be comfortable using multiple learning tools. A PowerPoint presentation from the publisher isn't going to cut it.

If you want to be a polished candidate plan on spending a lot of time in Hell. 

Once you hit full time status there is a five year evaluation period before you get a continuing contract. 

I wish you luck in your pursuit.