Being a manager sucks. How do people do this without becoming suicidal?

most who do it (and enjoy it) have no soul to begin with. 90% of management jobs are just occupational therapy, because nowadays, we don't need most of our population being field hands or day labourers.

you should either change it, so your management position is an actual work position or get out before it gets you.

Some people are better suited for dealing with administrative and managerial workloads than others.

They normally aren't interested in writing code though. So if you happened to get promoted from coder to manager, you probably are in the wrong position now. Ask for a demotion back to the highest coding position you liked working at (probably senior developer - team lead or not).

if you get promoted from coder to manager and it wasn't your idea, that's not a promotion. that's a signal to find another job.

We don't.

Become manager -> become suicidal -> quit -> do a startup/mess about -> run out of money -> become manager...

@Nihil75 This is almost my story except for the suicidal part. Now I'm looking to be a developer. Hahahaha!

Speaking from the IT side of things, I found it highly depends on having a good team. I hate to be a micromanager as much or more than being micromanaged but some employees just require you to be that way. Sure, that means that they probably should replaced at that point but that's never easy. Still, in my case it wasn't about having a good team, it was about having those above me not know what they were doing.