My first job fresh out of undergrad was in QA. My mother warned me about the potential for getting "tracked" into a career that wouldn't suit me, but the pay was good and the team was nice and I figured I could pivot.
Within two years, nobody wanted to interview me for jobs outside of QA functions.
I dunno if it's that people usually do like to stick with what they know, or that training people who already have other skills is seen as a waste, or what, but it seems like getting trapped in a job function you don't actually want to do long-term is a lot easier than the cultural sort of narrative says it is.
TL;DR I relate to this feeling and sympathise. And, if it helps any, I did manage to move to a different line of work before I quit to go back to school, by dint of finding a position where there was sideways mobility and then being very insistent that yes I wanted to do something different. Escape is possible!
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Within two years, nobody wanted to interview me for jobs outside of QA functions.
I dunno if it's that people usually do like to stick with what they know, or that training people who already have other skills is seen as a waste, or what, but it seems like getting trapped in a job function you don't actually want to do long-term is a lot easier than the cultural sort of narrative says it is.
TL;DR I relate to this feeling and sympathise. And, if it helps any, I did manage to move to a different line of work before I quit to go back to school, by dint of finding a position where there was sideways mobility and then being very insistent that yes I wanted to do something different. Escape is possible!