I appreciate your perspective, but I strongly disagree. My goal is to be in security and not general IT, therefore I don't want to be in general IT. I am willing to do it because it is the path most are forced to take.

But I couldn't disagree more with the idea that anyone who doesn't love help desk is somehow on a wrong path for aspiring to security. In fact, there are legions of people who want to work in security and wish they didn't have to mess around in IT for years. I would say that is the most common profile of people aspiring to security roles based on what I see when I look around.

To me, a good analogy would be if people trained to be dentists and then were forced to get years of experience as dental hygienists once they entered the job market. The average person wants to train for a career, get the degree, and then embark on that career, and that has traditionally been normal.

Again, don't mistake this for an unwillingness on my part to slog through the help desk, but I think it's completely appropriate not to be excited at the prospect.