Everyone is obsessed with being a software engineer who writes code but I love QA and all it represents. I started off as a QA and now write code but the experience made me a better engineer than virtually everyone who did not start off with QA. Trying to get a code writing job from a QA background is really hard. The developers who interview you tend to have this air of arrogance like people who started off in QA must be there because they could not write code. Actually, since I was not writing code all day I never grew tired of it and was more inspired to write programs on my own free time than them. I feel like this poor little QA with his feelings of inadequacy let the other elitist developers get to him.