I don’t mind being the senior member with more trust and responsibilities and power to manage people. But I would never take on the role of “manager.” Seems absolutely miserable unless your field is useless and you get paid to jerk off

I don’t want to deal with budgets or have back to back meetings about performance and departments and progress and all that shit. I’ve had to push back my own meetings with my managers like 4 times because their entire day was literally nothinf but meetings.

In hourly jobs, the manager/team lead will often be paid a salary. The managers I worked with were working from like 11 AM to 11 PM. No over tiime of course. It’s literally just more guaranteed work with less money lol