You are paid by a combination of how you sell yourself * the kind of work you do. It's not black and white. Work on grabbing the lowest hanging fruit and bottle

You are paid by a combination of how you sell yourself * the kind of work you do. It's not black and white. Work on grabbing the lowest hanging fruit and bottlenecks as in if you do a lot of good work, but no one cares, then work on presenting or finding a place that cares. Remove the block where good work is not valued.