No, I REALLY don't want to be in that briarpatch
One thing I have managed to avoid at work is taking on too much formal managerial responsibility (and there has recently been a situation in which, I suppose, had I cared at all, I possibly should have acquired same).
I really don't want it. I don't think I'd be good at it. It is not a thing that I think I could do better than the people who are doing it, even if I don't think they're making a particularly good job of it.
I think that there is also a thing going on here about having been Eldest Child and having had in my youth on too many occasions to be responsible for recalcitrant siblings (and sometimes other younger children). I disliked having to be a table monitor at school dinners (which came with being in the 6th form) and while possibly just very slightly flattered to be nominated, was on the whole rather glad not to have been elected a prefect.*
For some of us, reigning in Hell (rather than serving anywhere else) looks like Hell, and not a temptation.**
*I have a certain sympathy with Karen Marlowe, in that I don't really see why anyone should do what I say, and would rather be at my books.
**And yes, I'm aware of the argument that only people who don't want power should have it. Like any generalisation, it's not always true in every case.