You have to ask for what you want, but that doesn’t mean you’ll get it. 

It can be incredibly difficult to learn how to stand up for yourself. If you’re more of a passive person by nature, then you’re probably used to accepting treatment that you don’t deserve. Hopefully, you get better at this as you get older, but you probably had some steps along the way that made you the person you are now. One of the areas of our lives where it’s easiest to get taken advantage of is at work. It’s rough out there, and we all need jobs. And we’re likely to accept jobs that aren’t fully right for us just out of need for funds. This can mean we get stuck in situations where we’re not being respected. But you have to tell people how to treat you. People aren’t good at reading minds and knowing exactly what you want. This means you have to develop strong muscles to ask for what you want.