How do I keep negotiating my worth instead of waiting to be noticed?

You have learned something most people never do: no one is keeping a fair ledger of your worth on your behalf. You stopped waiting to be noticed and started speaking for yourself, and that changes everything about how a career goes. The risk now is a quieter one. Confidence can harden into a running scorecard, where every contribution is measured for what it should earn. Keep the skill, but do not let it eat the work. The negotiating is a tool for a good life, not the point of it. You want to be paid fairly so you can do work you care about, not the other way around. So now and then, do something for reasons that have nothing to do with leverage. Help a newer colleague find their own voice on this. You already know how much it matters to have someone show you that you are allowed to ask. Passing that on costs you nothing and keeps you whole.