Community College Teaching?

Hi--sorry if this is the wrong place for this advice, but I'm not sure where else to go. I've been working towards acceptance into a Philosophy PhD program for the past three years. The thing is that in that time, I've also managed to establish myself to some small extent in a career that I find more rewarding than I thought I would, and it pays much better in the long term than academia does. I guess I'm struggling with the idealism of my desire for a PhD versus the practicality of like...having money, for the first time in my life as someone from an unstable-income background. One of the reasons I'm beginning to doubt my desire for a PhD is the research aspect of the career--I love doing research on my own, but the publish or perish attitude is really indimidating to me and sort of the opposite of why I want a PhD so badly. Really what I want out of being a professor is to teach. So I've been wondering if I could get a masters part-time and teach just like one class at a community college, which will have a much more diverse body of students than any 4 year college anyway. Does anyone know anyone who has done this? Are community colleges going to get more competitive as the PhD market for the humanities gets even worse? Is my head totally in the clouds on this? I feel like I can't talk about this with my mentor or my recommenders yet because they've been so supportive of my research interests and my work and I don't want them to feel like I'm giving up. I guess part of it is also that my interests are quite niche--classical chinese, feminist/queer and philosophy of education are my proposed focus areas. I was waitlisted at several schools in this past round, but didn't end up in any of them.