This. After being in a managerial position in engineering for a long time, I am (at 50) reconsidering transitioning back to an individual contributor role. Ever

This. After being in a managerial position in engineering for a long time, I am (at 50) reconsidering transitioning back to an individual contributor role. Ever since I picked up a "leadership" role a couple of decades ago, I have been less approachable (per my family and friends) and need the weekends to just recuperate from a hectic week, rather than using this time to do fun things. And no, this is not because I am getting older. I have had a few stretches of downtime when I found myself doing fun things for days at end, and these were physically taxing activicites but were not "tiring."