In the world, there are still lots of people who always look down upon a QA position.
They deems that QA is a role without chanllenging, technical, even a good career path.
First of all, I would say that QA is full of chanllenging. You properly will meet different kinds of problems, and you can show your ability to solve them.
Second, a QA also skillful. In my position, I'm not only a good tester, but also a good developer. We develop tools, develop automation framework. It also involved as much as technologies that you can use, such like, C#/VB/F#, design pattern, database, WCF, .NET Remoting, visual studio.
Third, QA also have fantastic career path. You can transform to a developer, you can grow to a program manager, or you want to became a test manager, even you can be also a architect.