Lisa Marie Cordet was born on May 18th, a Taurus. The year doesn't matter, let's just say she's older than she looks by bunches. But this photo was current as of July, 2002.
Lisa was born on a farm outside West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, to a local Welsh girl and her Irish-American U.S. Air Force husband stationed at a nearby NATO base. At eleven, she came to the United States of America and settled down to call Anahiem, California home. Growing up a "valley girl" with pom-poms and cheerleading, surfing, Micky Mouse, and boys on her mind (not in that exact order), Lisa never considered going to college, much less becoming a webmistress because they didn't yet exist.
She played with her Malibu Barbie dream house and pondered if Lois Lane, girl reporter, had a cooler job than Wonder Woman. Little did Lisa know she would go on to have two college degrees and even work as a newspaper editor for a time before discovering the joys of computers and the World Wide Web.
To make a long story short she enrolled at USC without a clue what her major should be, sort of like any California girl. She simply smiles and tells everyone she's hiding blond roots (not!) At USC the only major thing that happened was finding a husband and getting pregnant right before he had to leave for the Vietnam War.
When he returned, a temporary basketcase, she dedicated herself to getting him walking again. And, after a few years (and a second son), they settled down in southern California and Lisa enrolled, already in her late twenties, at UCSB. By the time she had nursed that nipper, sent him off to school, and gotten pregnant yet again with her daughter, she graduated with a BS in computer science. That was in the days when data entry meant keypunch machines for little paper cards, so Lisa learned to type very fast which led to a summer job at a small weekly newspaper (a summer job lasting four years until her daughter started school when, as an associate editor, she finally quit to go back to college).
But just when she was beginning to attend classes for a Master's of computer science, her husband found himself out of work and searching for new prospects which eventually led them to pull-up stakes and relocate in the Midwest. She liked that, except for the cold winters, and was soon working in data processing for a major wholesale importer of Asian novelties. No, not the kind that use batteries and are hidden under the bed! Mostly in the beginning "carney crap" toys.
But the company grew by leaps and bounds, moving four times in three years because they had outgrown their warehouses. And it's amazing how much money all that plastic is worth! Lisa was promoted six times, ending-up a vice-president of data processing. Her employer even paid to send her back to school at UNO where she earned an MIS (Management and Information Systems) degree, and finally an MBA.
What, little Lisa the valley girl with an MBA?!! Yeah, it even floored her because she'd had no idea businesses even needed to be administrated. But her employer decided she couldn't be a vice-president earning six figures (very low six figures) without a graduate degree from some business college. He'd just invented the job description, and decided to send her for an MBA or he'd have to start shopping around.
A few years passed and Lisa was very happy, but then began to have severe health problems which finally cost her the job of her life. Was she depressed? No. She merely said, "any landing you can walk away from . . ." and limped to the phone book where a quick check of the Yellow Pages showed an awful lack of independent sub-contract webmasters for those many people too busy or dense to learn to code HTML.
Thus Lisa began her new career, working from home, maintaining any website that would have her. As you can see, Lisa does a very good job at very affordable rates (no overhead to speak of). Six figures? No, barely five. But she's a happy camper once again. That's all that matters. As Lisa says," life goes on and then you die, so party hearty but hurt no one."
