Jeanette Patterson:  

Life After high school worked as banquet coordinator at Airporter Inn Hotel (now the Atrium Hotel),located across from the Orange County Airport, for 5 years, then onto the Electronics industry (16 yrs at Hewlett-Packard, then 8 yrs as Exec. Asst. to VP of Operations/Supply Chain Mgmt at Rockwell Semiconductor/Conexant). Spent 2 years as Office Mgr. for Douglas Barnhart Construction firm (hated it!) so I retired, got REAL bored with nothing to do so worked 2 years as Volunteer for South County Outreach to founder and Exec. Director handling Grants and helped create Low Income Housing Coalition (yup, the Disneyland housing issue is part of our coalition campaign). After so much work and no fun I decided to find REAL happiness for myself so I took a part-time job at Build-A-Bear Workshop where I interact with happy children (my biggest joy in life right now). My husband, Mel Patterson, is a retired exec. (Director of Programs) from Rockwell where we both worked and he spends his time playing golf and taking long walks on the beach when we're not traveling, and tracing his family's geneology. We recently took a trip to the UK and Germany to trace his family lineage, (I encountered a REAL ghost!) and have spent time...Expand for more