This is totally how I got through years at my last job. Some of them find the attitude shift maddening, but nobody can do anything about the fact that it's true.
Pretty much no matter where you are in life, you'll be working for the approval of someone or another. Even if not in a job, than in every relationship you have. The only way to be truly free is to be completely alone, but if you have to flee from every connection, then you are instead bound in servitude to your own desire.
Try to think not only of your boss as a client, but as a person with whom you have a mutually reciprocal relationship. If you please him, he continues to want your services, if the manner in which he compensates you continues to please you, you continue to work there. If at any time the situation no longer benefits the two of you in a balanced fashion, then you go find someone new to have that relationship with. I don't think it has to be any different than you would with a friend or a lover. When things stop working, look for something/someone that does.
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Try to think not only of your boss as a client, but as a person with whom you have a mutually reciprocal relationship. If you please him, he continues to want your services, if the manner in which he compensates you continues to please you, you continue to work there. If at any time the situation no longer benefits the two of you in a balanced fashion, then you go find someone new to have that relationship with. I don't think it has to be any different than you would with a friend or a lover. When things stop working, look for something/someone that does.
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