[marcus0x62]

Moving into management[0] to get away from burnout is quite possibly the dumbest thing you could do, short of setting yourself on fire or trying to launch yourself out of a cannon into the sun.

Do you like dealing with people? Do you like dealing with people's problems? People who get promoted into management tend to be fairly adept at managing themselves, and it is easy for such people to develop the misapprehension that everyone is like them. Nothing could be further from the truth. At any given point in time, there will be someone on your team with a personal crisis effecting their work, or someone just not performing up to standard, or someone who is performing up to standard that your boss thinks is not, or some other interminable inter-personal drama.

All of that will explicitly be your problem and your problem to solve, one way or another. Management is a burnout multiplier, not a refuge.

If you really have a passion for leading people, by all means, develop yourself in that area and try it out when the time is right. I did it for five years, and generally enjoyed it. But don't think it will lower your stress or cure your burnout.

0 - I'm going to call it management, because that's what your first "leadership" job will be. You aren't going to be "leading" much of anything or anyone for a while