Posted on 06/24/2019 7:10:18 PM PDT by rintintin
May Lee drives herself to work nearly every day at 6 a.m. Her job involves saving the state of California millions of dollars every year through audits and analyzing budgets. Oh, and she turned 99 on Sunday, June 23.
Lee, who is of petite stature and moves about with a walker, said she just loves to work. Her philosophy: “If you keep busy, you enjoy life.”
Lee joined the California Department of Finance in 1943. Things were different back then, she recalls. There was no air conditioning. Women couldn’t wear pants to work. Calculations were done using a comptometer.
When the Department of General Services was created in 1963, she was one of the first employees and worked until she “retired” in 1990.
But for her, retirement means working four days a week as a retired annuitant. And, after exhausting her annuitant hours each fall, she continues to work as an unpaid volunteer.
“My license is good until 100,” she said matter-of-factly.
Over the years, Lee has served under 10 governors. She met Gov. Jerry Brown in 2012 and last week met Gov. Gavin Newsom while celebrating 76 years of service.
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They'll get some millenial SJW to hold a pillow over her face.
Let me guess that a shot of whiskey (or something similar) every night is involved.
I don't think she's doing it right.
One Muriel Air-Tip per day
No, one up one down.
I remember those, or a later version of them, I think? In the mid-50s they were called adding machines. Real fancy for the day. My uncle had one and it helped him run is big farming operation. I was dying to play with it, but they wouldn't let me within a mile, lol.
She also still drives herself to work four x a week.
Work begins at 6am!!!!
A. She just likes keeping busy and feeling needed.
B. She’s probably always been a morning person, having grown up on a fruit farm.
C. She met Gavin Newsome. Her remarks: “He’s tall”.
. She is inspiring to me. (Be all you can be).
My uncle had one of those too - they were VERY expensive! The first “computer” I think. My parents later on got a bit newer (and cheaper) version. I didn’t see it going through their stuff when mom died a few years ago. I suppose they got rid of it long ago when calculators came out to do the business.
Essentially a mechanical calculator. My dad had something similar before electronic calculators were small enough to put on a desk without cracking the formica.
CC
-PJ
For sure. The illegals are waiting to spend those “savings”.
My FIL passed at the youthful age of 94.
He passed when he was getting ready to go to work. Which he did 5 days a week and 1/2 a day on Saturday.
He was one of he last great carpenters (to the stars in Mexico fwwiw).
We shall not see his like again. And I am to a great degree the man I am from his example.
He was magnificent.
Thank you for the enjoyable read!
Yo Rinny !!!
They call her the Debt Lady.
Supposedly, someone once asked George Burns if his doctors warned him to lay off the cigars and booze. He replied, they did, but they’re all dead now.
“A shot”???? Nowadays, sanity depends on 2 or 3.
When this woman was born Woodrow Wilson was president.
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