Should you be getting paid more for what you do?

This question isn’t about money – this question is about how much you value your skill set and how well you think you do your job – I don’t need to know your salary or any such information, just want to know if your particular salary and benefits package and the relationship with your direct supervisor (unless you don’t have one) make it worth the stresses, the burn-outs, the negatives of your job.

When I began my job, I felt that my salary was really good given that I’ve never held a full time job before and that I negotiated for a bigger salary (they wanted to pay me 5k less). Now, I’ve been doing it for about 7 months and all the back and forth, the political bs, the simple injustices of the health care system faced by cancer patients that I work with, etc. are really getting to me and for the first time, I am thinking ’seriously, I should be getting paid more for this given certain aspects of the job’. I am grant-funded and I know they can pay me more money (possibly) and I wonder if, when a year rolls around, I should ask for more money. But this isn’t about money – this is about thinking you deserve more for the kind of work you do. Do you ever feel this way?