
She found her job at 75 years young!!
Jean Miller is a cloakroom attendant at the Vidal Sassoon hair salon, drives the 25 miles from her home to get there, and is 92 years old with no plans to retire anytime soon! Here is her story from The Guardian.
"When I first came here, I thought, 'What on Earth am I doing in among this young crowd?' But I’ve been here 17 years now and I love it. They are quite a cheeky lot sometimes. There was a rule made: 'Don’t swear in front of Jean.' Half the time now, I don’t hear what they’re saying, but when they say, 'Oh, sorry Jean,' but I know.
My husband Johnny was the district manager for a household supplier, and I was a sales representative there for 29 years. I retired at 60, in 1993, but I couldn’t stand it. I now work three days a week, from 9am to 4.30pm. I am included on all the nights out. They are absolutely hectic. It starts off nice and calm, and before the end of the night everybody is swinging about. I’ve been at every night out they’ve had since I started.
Lots of people say I am youthful. I don’t know about that, but I have looked after myself. I take cod liver oil tablets every morning. I had bowel cancer 10 years ago and the surgeon said to me I had five years. I said to him: “Five years! I am expecting to live much longer than that.”
If you’ve got an interest in people, that’s what gets you out to work. I know I will need to stop some time, but it will be when I really have to. There’s no way I am sitting in a chair."
Go Jean!!! Remember, age is just a number.
-Would you rather be actively working at age 75 OR be retired?
Great article and thanks for sharing! I know a woman who works at Macy's and she is in her 80s. She and her husband owned their own store for many years. When he passed away, she said she had to keep active. More power to these women!