I've never understood people who hate the idea of DMing or look upon it as a "janitor" or "babysitter" role. You get to choose what the scenario is, who the enemies are, and how and when things happen. You are ALWAYS in the spotlight. It does require more work outside the game, but that lessens with experience, to the point you can run a session off a couple of notecards, or with a dungeon map and key on graph paper if needed.

I've always preferred to be a DM. Being a player is like only getting to do half the game. People always look upon the DM as someone to be grateful for. I always am grateful to my DMs and thank them, but when I DM, if anything I am thankful to the players for being willing to play in MY scenario and let ME choose the monsters, the NPCs, the roleplaying, the type of adventure, et cetera. Do I have a lot of work to do? Yes, but it's the kind of thing I want to do anyway.