Resisting the Management Career Path?

RenQuanta asks: "Last August I graduated with my Masters and entered the work force with a very sweet technology job. Since then I've had great success in the projects I've been assigned too and as a consequence, my manager is pushing me into a project leadership role. That's fine, I enjoy the challenge and opportunity, but as time has gone on, I find myself doing more and more "management stuff" and less coding and hacking. That is, I'm spending too much time managing people, planning projects, dealing with customers and vendors. I don't want to spend my career as a manager, but as a technologist. Yet after only nine months in the industry, I realize that anyone with significant technological skill will end up as (at least) a project leader, with people under his/her authority. How do I keep from sliding too far down the path which will lead me to endless administration, financials, monthly letters, and too little technology in my day?"