Is hourly paid lecturing a viable route into a permenant lecturing position? I have struggled to get a permanent lecturing position in the location I want. I am location restricted due to the current COVID 19 situation. My long term goal is to get a permanent lecturing role.
So my question is: Is hourly paid lecturing a viable route to achieve this goal?
A bit of background. I have a PhD and I am on my second postdoc. I have published &gt;20 high quality papers so I am not too worried about my research experience. I just need to get more teaching experience.
Thanks.
I would personally not do this.

The world is cruel so why should the institution you are at right now offer you a permanent position when they can get you are a discounted rate?
The perspective could change if you knew for certain that a position was to open in the near future, but even then I doubt you would just be “gifted” the position: there would likely be a formal competition with no guarantee that you actually get the job.
Indeed coming back to 1., if a position is open but the locals know you’re willing to stay, why would they hire you if a position comes open when you’ll still be around anyways?  They could get 2 for the price of 1 by hiring someone else if a position comes open.

Where I work contract lecturers have some sort of protection against outright exploitation (after a few years they have the right to first refusal) but these very very rarely get transformed into permanent positions.
Not that I agree with this way of treating people as human commodities, but then again... it would not be the first time the scenarios above actually happen.