I've Been Moved
When I interviewed for my current job, I knew that the team I was interviewing for did a lot of software assessments, and I tried to make it as clear as I could that I was looking for a position in development. I don't enjoy QA work, and I'm immensely bad at it.
A good QA-er really wants software to work and really expects it to work, and if it doesn't, really wants somebody to fix it for them. I'm the opposite in all respects. I always find it astounding that computers work at all, and working correctly is just too much to ask for. What is more, if something doesn't work, I want to fix it myself. If I can't download the source and change it, I look for a configuration file that I can change, and if I can't do that I look for a cunning workaround. Of course, by the time I've finished doing this, I no longer remember exactly what the original bug was, so I either forget to report the defect at all, or else my report is vague and unhelpful. What is more, paperwork and procedures baffle me, and my company's approach to almost everything, but especially testing is to beat it into submission by throwing paperwork at it, while making the procedure to gain access to the paperwork database as Byzantine as possible.
So, after telling me throughout the interview how many fascinating opportunities for development work were coming up in the near future, and after mentioning every two weeks or so some exciting project which he would assign me to, my manager suddenly does a wierd volte-face: He announces that he is going to set up a new division which will concentrate entirely on assessments, and who will be responsible for it? Moi.
I'm not suggesting there's any kind of a plot. Everyone know's there's not. But it does make me wonder.