If you have paid your dues, you have had your own struggles and earned your place or position.
pay (one's) dues
To earn a given right or position through hard work, long-term experience, or suffering: She paid her dues in small-town theaters before being cast in a Broadway play.
google index:
"pay my dues" - 147,000
"paid my dues" - 260,000
A song featuring this idiom:
"so like i told you
You cannot stop me
I paid my dues"
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