There’s a 100-year-old woman in New York named Felimina Rotundo. She owns a laundromat across the street from the University of Buffalo called the College Laundry Shoppe. And she still works there 11 hours a day, six days a week.
She turned 100 in August, but she’s at the laundromat every day Monday through Saturday, from 7 A.M. to 6 P.M
She got her first job in 1930 when she was 15, and she’s been working ever since. She says the Great Depression forced her to grow up fast and develop a good work ethic.
And she also doesn’t plan on retiring anytime soon. She says as long as she can walk, she’ll keep working. And thinks a lot of people retire too early. Unless you have health problems, she doesn’t think anyone should retire before they’re 75.
So her advice for other seniors is to, quote, “get out and DO something,” because sitting around all day isn’t good for you.
