Credit Risk to Credit Trading

I'll be in NYC this summer on Credit Risk at a BB. I'm happy to have at least landed something for my first internship, but I'm not necessarily thrilled by the idea of remaining in the middle office for the rest of my life.

I've talked to some people about exit opportunities to trading, and the sentiment seems 50/50. Some saying it's too difficult; other's saying that it's almost the perfect path. These answers are never reassuring nor fulfilling, so I figured I'd come here to ask: what really are the chances of breaking into credit trading from credit risk? 

I want to minimally assume that some knowledge from my role to specifically credit trading is likely transferable. Would love to hear anyone's thoughts.