Getting moved out of a development job

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Published on 2010-05-22T13:16:03Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 13:20 UTC
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I'm a year out of college and I started my first dev job at a small (<15 people) company several months ago. It was an internship position that recently turned full time.

The position started out as development but for full time I got offered a grab bag of positions: qa, docs, call support and some dev work. It's clear that my employers feel I am lacking dev skills, which is true. I did not major in CS in college and did not have much dev experience. However, I'm convinced that I can be a good developer and I will be a good developer once given the chance to write lots of code.

My question is simple: what should I do? As I see it, there are two options.

  • Work hard in the non-dev duties so that my employers may eventually give me significant dev responsibilities.
  • Look for a new job where I will be a developer first and an all purpose guy second (if at all).

Thanks guys.

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