/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Machine Trade Anons...
I'm about to start my 2nd year as a Tool & Die Apprentice at a small PIM job shop. I work in just about every department outside the toolroom and spend a lot of time repairing damaged jobs. I've taken on a lot of additional work and responsibility since I've started. I also go to school for Machine Tool Technology. However..
>No one has been keeping track of my hours
>The journeymen toolmakers assume that my school is shit when they've never once looked into the program or what it does (my shop instructors are competent, respectable machinists)
>They don't let me do anything with the CNC machines except clean out coolant shit tanks. They seem pretty insistent on keeping me away from anything related to CNC machining for some reason.
>The company stopped giving a shit about maintenance 20 years ago, coincidentally around the time that the last toolmakers who founded the company sold it to an LLC run by a guy with a background in HR
>They've recently been hemorrhaging money trying to get a 20 year old EDM machine and a 25 year old CNC machine back up to speed after years spent not giving a shit about maintenance
I'm their first apprentice since the 80s. Part of me really wants to stick it out and help build the company back up. There seems to be some good people running the show. On the other hand, it seems like I'm giving it everything I got, but my apprenticeship was a half-assed afterthought and no one really gives a shit either way.

For all my time spent getting talked down to like a dumbass, for all the 14 hour days coming home covered in 8 kinds of grime and shit, my little sister makes more than me as a cashier at a convenience store. They always have some bullshit song and dance whenever I ask about getting the gradual raises they promised me when I started. What's worse, I'm paying out of pocket for my classes. Should I just stick with it for now? It's not like I have many other options. Tool & Die Apprenticeships are so rare.