I don't "serve" anyone. I provide my time in exchange for compensation and I do what I think is important with a little grey area that I also join in (for exam

I don't "serve" anyone. I provide my time in exchange for compensation and I do what I think is important with a little grey area that I also join in (for example, meetings). Ultimately though I decide what I'm working on and this usually works because I'm in touch with what's going on, I'm good at my job, and I want to keep it. However I still spend most of my time working on my own ideas of what's important and how I'm going to achieve it. This works for me and it works for the managers who are strong enough to let go of micromanagement. If the company feels that this goes wrong, or is out of touch with what they need, or simply (as has been the case once before) agree with exactly what I'm doing but feel the need to repeatedly "take control" and put structure on what I'm doing already, then this is fine and we can part ways. But I don't go to work to serve, follow, or otherwise be a slave to others. I would rather kill myself than live feeling like that even for 8.5 hours a day. No.