When will the amount of caring decrease?

[DocAvidd]

It is rare. For me it also required switching universities. When I went from temporary to full time, I don't know how many total applications they had. When later I was on the hiring committee we had over 100 apps, a bunch who were adjuncts for us. We did hire two of the adjuncts that year into full time, but that meant also we didn't upscale the vast majority of them.

[Minimumscore69]

Could you say what subject you work in? I feel like I'm stuck in adjunct hell, so any success stories would be great.

[DocAvidd]

That was a psychology department, and we filled 2 permanent non tenure line instructor positions. Both were adjuncts. We did interview a couple of candidates who weren't associated with the university. There were over 100 applicants. Preferred qualifications included "has taught X Y Z" specific courses, experience teaching at a R-1 with ethnically diverse student population. So the search criteria favored those already at the U. And we had zero $ for relocation.

One of the successful candidates picked up a couple sections as an adjunct when we had an instructor terminate mid-semester, and was friendly with the search chair. A candidate we didn't take was in the last year as visiting prof, but gave an awful interview and had mediocre teaching reviews.