Consider making it your philosophy to do without any & all credit and doing "the good deeds in stealth". The win-win is that probably credit will easily flow to

Consider making it your philosophy to do without any & all credit and doing "the good deeds in stealth". The win-win is that probably credit will easily flow towards over time in surprising ways you when the need is gone, and even if it doesn't, the need was overcome. Consider the way your manager tried to keep you "at all costs" (salary & even promising much more than he could really deliver!) a huge credit in disguise. "The superior leader [...] is a catalyst, and though things would not get done well if he weren't there, when they succeed he takes no credit. And because he takes no credit, credit never leaves him."