Part-time work

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Before turning professional, she balanced work shifts at a pizzeria with football ambitions.

Her first job was delivering papers for a community journal and working as a football referee.

Away from football, she has actively looked for part-time work in areas including sales, customer service, events and office work.

As a part-time job she would go to schools to teach sport and trying to inspire young kids.

Early in her NWSL career, she drove for Uber to help make ends meet.

When she lived in Friesland at sc Heerenveen, she worked two days a week in a hotel alongside football.

While at Excelsior, she worked in a café and helped run a football clinic because the club compensation was only around €50 per month.

Throughout college, she was a manager of an ice cream shop near her school.

She works part-time as a police officer while playing professional football, valuing it as a second career and personal balance.

She used to work in Domino's that changed her name of the store to Lucy's during the Euros.

Her first non-football-related job was at Krispy Kreme in high school, where she worked during breaks alongside her friends, having fun while selling donuts.

Just six years before signing for AC Milan, Christy was working as a waitress at a hotel in Stonehaven while playing for Aberdeen. Today, she captains the Rossonere—a remarkable journey she once described as her "football fairytale."

She has worked as a swimming teacher alongside her football career.

Fashion is one of her biggest passions away from football. She previously worked part-time in a Follestad clothing store while playing in Norway because she genuinely enjoys style—not just for extra income.