Why I decided against taking an internship in my field and waitress instead
![Madeline Buss wishes she could do an internship in finance. But waitressing pays better and she couldn’t afford Vancouver’s high cost of living without it. A woman pours steaming milk into a jug while standing in front of a large coffee maker.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7281527.1722461278!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/madeline-buss.jpg)
For Madeline Buss, working as a restaurant supervisor and waitress is a different day-to-day reality than other students in her university economics program doing lower-paid internships in their field. But she couldn’t afford Vancouver’s high cost of living otherwise.