Inspiring: The Oldest Working Nurse In The United States Turns 90 And Still Going! .. She Has Served As A Nurse For Nearly 70 Years

SeeSee Rigney, an operating room nurse at Tacoma General Hospital in Tacoma, WA, celebrates her 90th birthday with her coworkers, and six decades of nursing. She is an inspiration to all! God bless you my friend. We love you and can only hope to have half of the energy you have at your age.
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An college buddy sent this to me; she's an OR head nurse and we'd just had this discussion over the weekend; WOW, what an amazing women! My mother would have stated: 'she's got great genes and a good family bone structure'---not quite sure what that meant but my mother was always stating that! LOL

Given only about twenty per cent of people employed work at a job they truly love, its not surprising that it brings up strong emotions both for and against. If you love what you do and have good health its a joy to continue doing what one loves, whereas doing what you tolerate is only a transition to a release from servitude Freud said two things in life are important love and work and if you have both you are indeed blessed and likely to live a full and happy life all things being equal (health, geography,circumstance)

I've just excepted that by the time I'm old enough to retire Social Security will be gone and I won't have enough saved to be able to do so. So I will work until the day I die or become physically incapable of work and end up in a homeless shelter.

I have pretty much retired now... Yet I find if I don't stay busy with things I go stir crazy...I don't think I could ever be one of those that retire and sit in a rocking chair.

I love to keep active.
My grand father retired from building homes at age 85 and lived to 104 active up til the last year of his life. I would love to have that kind of life.

it boils down to whether one enjoys their work

I would gladly continue 'working' in something I enjoy, whether a paid nine to five or self employ or volunteer


I would hate to 'work' in something that made me miserable into my last days

Would You - Will You; Work Past Your Retirement Age, Even If....

No way!

Everybody always saying stuff like "YOLO" and "Life is short" but then justify sitting at a desk until they collapse.

LIVE!

Let some youngster have that job and get out and enjoy the world!

Work...

I full on expect to die working.

I'd actually be quite disappointed
if death comes for me on a day off.

Im retired from my job



But I still work

Me, too. That's why I don't work.

I'll retire when I hit the lotto.

I don't think I'd still like to be working by retirement age. I want to be able to rest, and have a quiet life, and quiet time. I don't despise working. It's more of a mind thing, if anything. I just feel as if I've gone through hell in the last few months. It would reassure me to know that I was going to be left alone. I don't deal very well with pressure.

Humm I would most likely stay part time as long as they will let me pick my days I want to work lmao...

I have the easiest job I've ever had in my life...

Yes

I can't retire. Having a handicapped child early on, meant almost zero ability to save or invest for retirement funds. Besides, I'm not very good at "having fun."

Are there no job seekers there, why occupy a space that could better the life of younger ones? If her predecessors had held tight to their jobs like she is doing, could she had got that nursing job in the first place? Kudos to her anyway, it requires special grace to not have osteopetrosis or other degenerative impediments at that age. I will retire immediately i clock 60, God willing

Yes I think k I will still be working.

Mee tooo...!..

At the rate I am going, I'll probably still be at it when I am 70, unless I suffer from 'dementia' or something that will keep me away from work.

But being the workaholic that I am, if my faculties are still intact, I would still enjoy working.

No way. I like being retired and being in charge of my own time.

If I was working I would not have time to have fresh Apricot butter cake baking in the oven . OMG smells so good.

Ok...that sounds really marvelous - really it does!

Ok - I'd keep working {once this recovery period is over} and I'd be able to set my own hours as a Paraprofessional working with those Autistic Children again - more like a consultant/freelance!

So that they wouldn't/couldn't set my time up with those wonderful 1st - 4th graders and swing that pendulum back & forth {increase to decrease to decrease & then increase again} from one year to another! Just when you start making some serious inroads with a learning skill and the child is 'GETTING IT' - making the connection; the agency reevaluates the progress and ascertains that the kids made so much progress that NEXT YEAR HIS ASSISTANCE TIME WILL BE CUT - then next year he struggles and fails - gets frustrated and slides back to where he was the previous year! So then at the end of this year the eval proves that he needs 'X' amount of assistance and he's allotted the extra time that he had 2 yrs back and the vicious cycle starts all over 'AGAIN'!!! INCLUSION --- just another way of saying; 'Give us your special needs child and we'll F'm up really good in 5 easy methods just for you parents!