New managers get promoted when there&#x27;s a need for one.  Sometimes that&#x27;s because the existing manager is moving up, or because they&#x27;re leaving the company or transferring to another department, or just because the department is growing and lots of new employees are coming on.  The most dependable path to becoming a manager is actually the last one, making sure that you join a high-growth department in a high-growth company.<p>That said:<p>&quot;I am getting tired of day-to-day technical stuff where it&#x27;s your fault when smallest thing goes wrong and it&#x27;s everyone&#x27;s efforts when things go right.&quot;<p>If you dislike this, then you will <i>suck</i> at being a manager.  It&#x27;s the manager&#x27;s <i>job</i> to take the bullet when things go wrong and pass on the credit when things go right.  That&#x27;s the only way you can create an environment where your reports feel safe in taking risks and working their hardest on a high-value problem.<p>It&#x27;s also a manager&#x27;s job to navigate internal politics and advocate for their team.  If you don&#x27;t do this effectively, both you and your reports will end up marginalized, and you&#x27;ll find that your best reports will transfer away.<p>If your problem is that there&#x27;s too much internal politics and you&#x27;re sick of it, that&#x27;s usually a problem with the company (or sometimes just the department), and is best solved by switching companies to one that higher-growth, where everybody is too busy to undercut each other, or alternatively by getting better at politics.