Originally published 12/31/2022
The New York Times recently interviewed 10 people who are in the Oldest 1% of their professions.
⬇️ Read their bios! ⬇️
In the National Football League, Tom Brady is a very old man. (For the other graphs, read the article)
⬇️ Read some snippets below ⬇️
✅👍 Jesse Izaguirre, 70 - Paramedic These days, he works two 24-hour shifts each week transporting patients in Los Angeles County. 🏥
✅👍 Helen Fletcher, 83 - Baker - Now 83, she rises before dawn to make cheesecakes, tarts, biscotti, tiramisù. 🍞🥐🥖
✅👍 Lilian Thomas Burwell, 95 - Artist - Lilian Burwell recently had an exhibition in New York that drew so much attention that, as she puts it, she’s been making “real money.” 🖼️🎨🖌️
✅👍 Deon Nielsen Price, 88 - Composer - Today she writes music for ensembles across the country. 🎼🎵🎶🎧
✅👍 Harvey Davidson, 84 - Tour Guide - Mr. Davidson only became a tour guide in his 60s, but he has a lifetime’s worth of New York City to share. 🗽
✅👍 Maria Elena Zavala, 72 - Biologist - She’s a professor of biology at California State University, Northridge, where she studies root systems and the nutritional content of beans. 👩🔬
✅👍 Earl Pollock, 82 - Logger - Monday morning usually finds Mr. Pollock, a logging foreman, his bulldozer, flattening a road through the timber woods. 🌳🌲
✅👍 Dianne McIntyre, 76 - Dancer - Recently she performed in New York City, the same place where she once began her career and started her dance company 🩰
✅👍 Louis Caplan, 85 - Doctor - These days, Dr. Louis Caplan, a practicing neurologist and professor of medicine, is teaching students 60 years younger than him his favorite part of medicine: how to take a patient’s history. 🩺🥼🧑⚕️