Felimina Rotundo works in her local laundry shop, washing clothes and handling dry cleaning, from 7am to 6pm every day, 6 days a week. She is100years-old, with no intention of retiring any time soon.
She was born in 1915 and started work at the age of 15, during the Great Depression. She’s worked in the area for nearly 40 years, and when she first started at the College Laundry Shoppe in Buffalo, she only made about 25 cents for washes.
She says she continues to work because ‘it gives her something to do.’ ‘I talk to people all day; I do a few bundles. It’s being out,’ she says. ‘Getting up in the morning and you say “I have to go to work,” it does something for you.’
While she’s not entirely against retirement, she thinks the acceptable age is around 75, and only if you’re in poor health. Otherwise, she reckons, ‘too many old people are retiring too young.’
Her advice? ‘Get out and do some work.’
Comments