Christen Wood was an accident waiting to happen — in a good way.
A chance encounter with the local newspaper led Wood to the Ashtabula (Ohio) Wastewater Treatment Plant, which hired her as a laboratory analyst in 2009. Then she accidentally moved from the laboratory to operations and found her true calling.
“This is the career of a lifetime, and I never knew it existed when I graduated from college,” says Wood, who holds a bachelor’s degree in biology. Since October 2018, she has been operations administrator for the Upper Tuscarawas Wastewater Treatment Plant Number 36 in Akron, operated by the
