Isaac Joseph Zapata Employment and Training Instructor/Mentor

First Job: Shoe Shine Boy in Parlier

Birthplace: Grandview, Washington

Years at EOC: just over 20 years

Best advice ever received: “Life has its ups and downs, but it’s how you handle it that makes the difference.”

Favorite advice I give: “Everybody has game, used in a negative way you know what you get; used it in a positive way and see the difference.”

Favorite restaurant, dish, or pig-out food: Ribs and Tips

Proudest moment: graduating from college and watching my mother, stand tall and proud

Greatest personal accomplishment: raising my two sons

Best vacation I’ve taken/dream vacation: Father’s Day weekend at Pismo with my sons/family and friends

Favorite weekend activity: y ard work & working on my El Caminos

Last good movie I saw: I can’t remember.

Scariest experience: when the babysitter took my sons to run errands and her husband told me that he didn’t know where they were nor has he seen them

If I had a million dollars I would … look into starting my own business, buy a better home for my parents.

Favorite place to shop: J.C Penny’s

Favorite childhood memory: g rowing up in La Colonia-Parlier, Young St.

Words that describe me best : e azy going

I like to watch: whatever is interesting

In my spare time … I enjoy going to a uto swap meets/looking for old cars/parts.

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is … things are not always what we think they are, look a little deeper and you will see the real thing.