Hello my name is Elliot, I recently came across these forums and it felt like a great place to ask a question that I have been battling with for a few days now. I recently discovered a posting on the Obsidian site that has peaked my interest. However my dilemma is while I feel that I could be a good candidate for this position, my real eventual career goal lies within another dept.
How do you think employees conducting the interviews feel about this? I don't want to seem disingenuous, I would do my best if considered and hired for the applied position but I would always have my eye and work towards the other position. Some people can see it as having passion which could be a good thing, but I can also see the argument that my heart would not totally be in the position I was hired for and therefore why would we hire you over someone who actually wants to grow in said position.
I guess to be less cryptic I am considering applying for the Lead QA Tester position, I have a lot of game QA experience and actually currently work across the street from Obsidian In my downtime however I am feverishly pursuing a career in 3D art. I would love to join Obsidian as I miss the gaming side of QA and also I feel it could provide a nice incubation area for me to pick the brains of other 3D artists already in the industry and really hone my self training. But as I said I don't want to apply, possibly get an interview and then disappoint or make the interviewers feel like they are wasting their time with me.
I'm sorry for the length of this post, I might have rambled a bit, but its something that has really been plaguing my mind and it was nice to actually vent out in writing.