My career path to Google included bartending and working at a nursing home. Here's what it taught me.

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Milica Cvetkovic

• Milica Cvetkovic, 35, took a non-traditional path to working in AI at Google.
• After college, she worked as a shot girl on Bourbon Street and then worked at a nursing home.
• She compares her career to a marathon, and said her combined experiences led to her current role.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Milica Cvetkovic, a 35-year-old senior technical solutions consultant at Google, based in Chicago....