[princess3000]

The word boss has a pretty specific connotation and your clients and customers aren't that. Yes, if you work for yourself you're responsible for delivering work to your customers and they have some control over you due to that but it's incredibly different from the relationship between a salaried employee and his singular supervisor.

[ngsayjoe]

Agreed. I started a successful company becoz i don't want to have a boss, and i'm really glad i did it!

[jrgnsd]

*because

[corobo]

You can fire a customer, you can't fire your boss

[namenotrequired]

You can disappoint a customer, but you can't afford to disappoint all of them. You can disappoint your boss but you can't disappoint him or her all the time.

A single customer isn't necessarily equivalent to your boss in a job, but together they are.