One 23-year-old former cocktail waitress used her San Francisco job site as a base for pursuing her graphic design career.

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The fact that she got her start as a cocktail waitress in one of the hotels on our list is not altogether surprising.

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Lisette said that her mother was not a motel maid or a cocktail waitress but a blackjack dealer, and you had to be trained for that.

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Could be, Yvette was back to being a cocktail waitress.

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She traces a wandering adolescence and young adulthood hungry for purpose and sanctuary, from working as an underage cocktail waitress and in robotic catering gigs to winter backpacking in Europe and earning a MFA at U of M.

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