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These 100-year-olds say working beyond retirement age is what keeps them going: 'I'll work for as long as I can' (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Counterpoint: my nan is 104 and hasn't done a day of work since she was a Land Girl during the second world war.

[–] Kecessa 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Guess she was an at home mom, right? Because that's more than a full time job, especially back in the days when the man didn't take care of the kids except when it came time to scold them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

True. But even once the last child was an adult she didn't even have any kind of part time work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is a land girl?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

In both of the world wars Britain had an organisation called the Women's Land Army. Which was a thing women could volunteer for to work on farms while the men who would normally work there were at war.

https://www.womenslandarmy.co.uk/