Show The It’s ©is1 EtoMay Yen’ r CEU freshman Kirsten Christensen juggles being a e Bo a 40 student and journalism teacher at Carbon High School full-tim- e mom to full-tim- Freshman trys many careers before settling down to college Adams by Angelyn starr writer Working as a waitress a e mom a policewoman and a journalist are just a Tew or the jobs held by CEU freshman news editor Kirsten Christensen Christensen moved to Price from Richfield last summer and enrolled fall quarter as a fulltime student Since that time she has worked as a writer and photographer for the Sun Advocate and Eagle newspapers She also works at Carbon High as a journalism teacher "I've learned more about journalism by teaching than I have ever did working for a newspaper" She has lived a busy life beginning working at age 1 1 Christensen started her first job at a dairy milking cows and moving sprinkler lines She liked the job because could drive the pickup to work Dad didn't want to get up that early to take me" full-tim- 'I During her high school years she worked as a waitress at BJ's Restaurant After graduating from Richfield High School in 1981 she moved to Lake Powell to work cleaning house boats and then as secretary After two years at Lake Powell she moved to Salt Lake City and worked in a floral shop In 198S she married Steve Christensen who accepted the position as editor of die Sun Advocate last summer about her past experiences most people are suprised to team that she worked two years for the Richfield Police Department as a patrolman "This is the only job 1 know of that you can gel paid Main Street " she fordragging quipped The best thing about being an officer was being known as "officer friendly" All the elementary students would always stop whatever they were doing to wave and say "hi" The worst thing she says "was when I had to tell the parents of an girl that their daughter had drowned in the local public swimming pool” A variety of other jobs has held includes Christensen that public relations personnel for the Sevier Valley Technical College working in a care center writing for the Richfield Reaper newspaper and also photographing weddings One of the biggest opportunities she was involved in was the structuring and writing articles for magazines' about die "Great Western Trail" that goes from Canada to Mexico Her dream occupation is to be the photographer and producer of the slide shows for Mannheim Steamroller She and her husband Steve's dream is to make their part-tim- e free-lanwriting full time However their number one goal is to allow her to get her degree ce Eagle-pag- 3 e Mi Grab your party hat! 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