[jgerrish]

I'm sorry this has happened to you. Thank you for posting.

I've mentioned this before, but teachers and managers are some of the most important people we have in this world. And when they don't want to do their job, the people they support suffer.

But with engineering and software engineering, so many of the senior roles have leadership responsibilities. So marking yourself as unavailable hurts your ability to get a job.

For most engineers this probably won't matter.

I don't have a good solution. I hope you're not afraid of confronting the issue head on if you really don't want to be a manager. Talk with some friends or colleagues I guess.

Good luck. I hope you don't have to give up profressional engineering if you love it.