{"id":201858,"date":"2017-05-25T11:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/?p=201858"},"modified":"2017-05-25T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:47:02","slug":"lifelong-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/25\/lifelong-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Post: Jim Pagiamtzis\u2019s lifelong journey of education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education is a lifelong journey, and some people don&#8217;t want to stay still. At Centennial College, we set our alumni up with transferrable skills that let them move around, if that&#8217;s what they wish.<\/p>\n<p>That was the case with Jim Pagiamtzis, who graduated from our Business Management program in 1994, and moved on to a varied, successful career in areas as diverse as marketing, public speaking, and even acting.<\/p>\n<p> He used his business knowledge as a platform to pursue a variety of interests on his long, colourful journey, and regularly uses his skills to give back to Centennial College, the school that helped set him up. 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