Show management you are the exception to the typical IT person and you’ll go far. They might even invite you some of their meetings. ;)
IF y can get a job and the Mumbai Mafia hires you....
Well,
Never had the desire to do management....managing people,projects, blah! I consider myself more like a tradesman build, fix,improve...hands on...so I am sure to make my weirdness come thru and that keeps me where I want to be. Make a decent buck and I have a life...