Mariam Todd is one-hundred years-old and still working six days a week. “I can’t say I’m working when I enjoy what I’m doing, so I feel guilty if I say I’m working,” New Jersey-based centenarian Todd tells the Evening Standard. She may be an extreme example of a senior continuing work through the ages, but she is certainly not alone.
American-British chef Ruth Rogers, owner of Michelin starred restaurant The River Café in London, told the Standard in a June interview, “retire, me? No, no, no — I’ll die at the stove.” The 75-year-old just opened a sister restaurant The River Café Café adjacent to the original. Meanwhile, Italian fashion design and chief executive, Giorgio Armani, turned 90-years-old on July 11, and shows no sign of retiring. In a recent Financial Times interview, he said, “everyone tells me I should just retire and enjoy the fruits of what I’ve built, but I say no . . . absolutely not.”
