Having to work with toxic people or completely give up an interpersonal leadership role as a condition of being a staff engineer is another. I'm in a weird spo

Having to work with toxic people or completely give up an interpersonal leadership role as a condition of being a staff engineer is another. I'm in a weird spot career wise because I turned down 3 management roles to oversee multiple teams and now have to signal my non-interest in stepping out of team leadership and into a staff engineering role. I just really like managing ICs in the day to day and everything that would make me good at those other roles is incidental to me liking managing ICs.