Thank you for your kind words. I just want to clarify that I am NOT a moderator here. I'm just a very active member.
I wish that we had more details on Lori's employment history but it has been hard to figure out how to put it in the timeline when we don't have any details as to places and dates she worked. There were some more details of some volunteer work that her attorney mentioned in the hearing that I need to go back and grab.
Some info that I think is not in the posted timeline yet (but will be in the next update I post) is info about her high school and her first husband that has come out recently. Here's a link:
Exclusive: Lori Vallow Daybell Went from 'Devout' Cheerleader to 'a Mystery,' High School Friend Says
What I find interesting is that she talked about going to college at BYU but she never went to college. Instead she married a non-Mormon and that marriage ended in divorce. I would love to know how her parents reacted to her first marriage and divorce and what they had offered her (or not offered her) as far as support to go to college. Lori's parents have been completely silent in all of this chaos-- not once have they spoken to the press and no one has really even talked about her parents in the press either except for that high school friend in the above link. Many have taken that as a sign that they are possibly supportive of her. But what if Lori's parents basically cut her off (money-wise) when she made the choice to marry a non-Mormon instead of going to college?
We see them all together (Lori with her siblings and her parents) in a photo at Lori and Charles' house-- the house where Colby got married in the backyard-- but what if Lori parents only reconnected with her after she married Charles and he converted to be Mormon too? Maybe they finally gave Lori the approval she was wanting so she has kept up this charade of being religious since then. I'm rambling a bit but this all ties into Lori's employment history. The following is my speculation only: I think she grew up with money but was possibly cut off from that family money and the lifestyle she was accustomed to after she chose to get married to her high school sweetheart rather than go to BYU. The marriage ended in divorce and she was probably left desperate for a high-priced lifestyle again.
There were not many careers options for a woman in the 1990's with only a high school degree who doesn't want to do any manual labor and has no past office-work history. She didn't have a HS job, as far as we know, and didn't do volunteer work in HS or belong to any academic clubs that would have given her transferable job skills and business connections. She's not tech-savvy, despite growing up in a time when computers were beginning to take over everything. And she left her hometown after her 1st marriage ended. I think she chose cosmetology because looking good was what she knew how to do best, it didn't involve any special skills and didn't cost a lot to get started. Plus, it allowed her to meet a variety of people, some who might have money. Maybe she would have liked to try modeling but she was not tall enough (at least by the 90's standards) but sex work was never an option that crossed her mind IMO.
I think Lori mostly wanted a high-priced lifestyle with minimal effort required of her and kept marrying richer men hoping to find that but she was never satisfied. She never figured out how to be content with less money. She divorced Joe because "he didn't make enough money" but we found out Joe was actually pretty successful and he had the ability to fight for legal custody of Tylee for many years in civil courts, which is something most lower-income single parents can't afford to do. I think Joe simply didn't give Lori enough money for her liking, so she moved on to someone she perceived to be richer. She had to work as a hairdresser for a little while before she found her next husband. We heard that she met Charles while she was cutting hair.
Charles completely spoiled and pampered Lori from everything we saw-- whatever Lori wanted, Lori got when she was with CV. CV payed to fight the civil custody suits. CV moved to Kauai and attempted to start a business there because it was Lori's dream. CV converted to LDS because of Lori. She had him wrapped around her little finger but it apparently wasn't enough for her. When the Kauai business venture didn't work out and they were forced to move back to to AZ, I think that was when Lori went searching for another man. But she was determined she didn't want another divorce. I think we will find that while religion runs heavily in the background of this case, the motives here have always been about money.
MOO.