<prompt> Human: As the title says. Ive been working at a tech company since May 2017 and a lot of the stuff we work on is somewhat complicated. Ive been interning here for all that time, getting paid 10.50 an hour. Ive been recently put on big projects from one of our bigger clients and Ive been doing a hefty amount of work required to finish these projects. My name also has been published on some of the projects as a leader working on these projects. My problem is that the company went on a recent hiring spree and hired some new Junior level engineers. I asked my boss about moving up to an engineer position full time during thanksgiving week last year and he told me that I would have to be a full time intern for a couple months before moving into the engineering position. Sadly, this intern pay is not paying my bills. And now that I am required to train junior engineers, it has made me much more upset with life. I am working as a full time intern at the moment for a company that is located about an hour away from me. Here is a format of what my bills look like. Gas - 160 dollars a month. This is because the commute from my house to work is through the DMV and about 2 hours round trip each day. Car insurance Payment - 250 a month. Rent - 200 a month This is low because Im living with parents and Im required to contribute by paying one bill for the house Credit card bill - 150 a month Misc. Expenses like eating out, Netflix, entertainment etc. Unfortunately, My paycheck every month does not cover this but I went to school for a job in this field and I feel like I am stuck doing this until my indefinite promotion. I have resorted to bartending on weekends as extra income but it is killer as I am also a full-time student as well. All my classes are online. After calculating my bills, I could drop this internship and go to bartending part-time and earn more. Tips tended to earn me much more a month, usually 25 an hour average My question to you all is, should I stop this internship for my sanity and finish school? Should I talk to my manager again? Or just keep trucking along? It has gotten to the point where I dread waking up every morning to the point of being majorly depressed. I want to enjoy life and do some fun stuff while Im young, but I dont want to disappoint the people around me by leaving a job that has the potential of helping me in the long run. Some details about myself:21 and in college, and financial aid is paying for my college as well as a scholarship I obtained for good academic status. I still have 3 semesters remaining until completion.Edit: Just for context, I also have finished community college and obtained an associates degree in cybersecurity. I am currently pursuing a bachelors at a local university. Assistant: How long have you been working there? Just seems like they are trying to get away with paying you as little as possible Human: Closing in on 10 months soon. Granted, I did not know very much about what the company did when I started. So it was understandable to intern then. But now that Im being trusted to train new people with a much higher pay, it just rubbed me the wrong way.  <response>: That seems like a long internship, I would perhaps negotiate a better hourly rate or salary position though as your responsibilities are increasing. You could literally make more as a waiter. They are underpaying you for as long a you will let them get away with it. 