Decades after most people retire, she chooses to keep working. 101-year-old Jane Burns was employed in a cloth cutting position 25 years ago. The woman works part-time and says it’s one of the secrets to her longevity.
“You have to keep moving and not sit around the house all day,” says Pred TODAY.com Burns, who was born in 1922. “I just love to work and I love to work with people.”
And until today still drives a car and joins traffic in the morning, to get to a Joann’s store in Mason, Ohio, where she works. According to her, on “quiet days” the journey takes 20 minutes.
Her schedule at the store varies, but in one week, for example, she works three days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The job requires good eyesight and some physical strengthto handle fabric bales, but Burns says she has no problems with it at all, except for heavy vinyl fabric.
She lives in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio, with her daughter, who also worked at the store part-time and introduced her mother there in the 1990s after Burns was widowed.
“I was doing fabrics, so the manager asked me if I wanted to work. I started working there, I liked it and I stayed”recalls the centenarian.
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She used to be an accountant and retired “from time to time” but never fully. When asked if she has to work because of the finances or if it’s just something she enjoys doing, Burns says it’s a little bit of both.
Before TODAY.com she issues your recipe for longevity.
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Longevity tips from a woman at 101 who still works 9 to 5
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