Life Skills, Episode 9: Asking (series finale). A 5-minute plain-language lesson on negotiation and career moves - the thinnest evidence in the series, said plainly. Many price tags are opening bids: a starting salary, a contract rate, a raise, a deadline. Negotiating a starting salary went with about +$5,000 (Marks & Harold 2011, secondary); in unpublished Carnegie Mellon data 57% of men vs 7% of women negotiated (via Babcock & Laschever); no solid meta-analysis shows training raises real pay. Worked arithmetic (assumptions): +$5,000 a year is $50,000 over 10 years, ~$57,300 with 3% raises. How to ask: know your number from 2 sources, ask with a reason, then let them answer; treat a no as information. Ends with the whole series and its nine 'do this week' actions on one screen. Do this week: write down your market rate from two sources and one ask you've been putting off.