Juliet Tatarakis Arredondo Employment and Training Academic and Career Advisor

First Job: Porky’s as a waitress

Birthplace: Fresno, Ca

Years at EOC: 2 years this September

Best advice ever received: “You’re not the first and you definitely won’t be the last!”

Favorite advice I give: “Let it go, get over it and move on.”

Favorite restaurant, dish, or pig-out food: Dog House Grill, Japanese Kitchen, Joy Luck

Proudest moment: supporting my husband during his promotion to Vice Principal

Greatest personal accomplishment: graduating from CSU, Fresno, with a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology

Best vacation I’ve taken/dream vacation: Best-Vegas and Ensenada. Dream-Greece

Favorite weekend activity: when my husband and I take our daughter Carly to Little Gym every Saturday

Last good movie I saw: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off…just kidding - Law Abiding Citizen

Scariest experience: giving birth and not knowing if my child would survive and spending her first week of life at Valley Children’s

If I had a million dollars I would … put a big chunk in Carly’s college fund and then pay off my school loans as well as my husbands.

Favorite place to shop: Forever 21, New York and Company, Target, Children’s Place

Favorite childhood memory: playing in the empty field behind my parent’s home, rolling in big huge tractor tires and having rock fights with my brother

Words that describe me best: sassy, motivated, realistic, dependable, funny

I like to watch: The First 48, Chelsea Lately, Real World, Housewives of Orange County and New York, E!News

In my spare time … I try to enjoy a girl’s night out as often as possible! There’s nothing like an awesome group of girlfriends

If I’ve learned one thing in life, it is … when one door closes another one opens.