{"id":54127,"date":"2025-04-27T06:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54127\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:59:10","slug":"im-100-and-worked-until-i-was-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/54127\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I’m 100 and worked until I was 90"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tCentenarian Arthur Lambert loved working and says it was never a chore – he believes retiring later in life is a huge factor in his longevity\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

A 100-year-old<\/a> self-confessed workaholic who finally retired at 90 says he believes working longer has helped him reach a ripe old age<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Arthur Lambert, who will turn 101 in June, told The i Paper he first began his working life around the age of 14 carrying out a milk and paper round before going to school.<\/p>\n

He then became an engineering apprentice and worked his way up from a toolmaker to a draughtsman, before becoming a production engineer and then finishing up as a managing director.<\/p>\n

Arthur\u2019s working life did not end there as after finishing as a managing director in the engineering field at the age of about 70, he became a recruiter for the Federation of Small Businesses<\/a> and carried on in that role until the age of 90.<\/p>\n

As new research reveals better health is associated with later retirement<\/a> and that 70 is the new 50, Arthur says he believes keeping mentally and physically active is one of the secrets to a longer life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always been a workaholic<\/a> and had a strong work ethic,\u201d Arthur says. \u201cI think that has had a lot to do with the longevity of my life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never consciously set out to achieve anything or work to a certain age. I just really loved working and going to work and doing my job never felt like a chore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Research by the International Monetary Fund is celebrating \u201cseventies as the new fifties\u201d. A World Economic Report by the institution noted a sharp rise in the \u201csilver economy\u201d with people ageing healthier.<\/p>\n

\"ArthurArthur Lambert, 100, believes retiring later in life has helped him reach a good old age<\/p>\n

The report, which was compiled using data from 41 countries, revealed that a person who was 70 in 2022 had the same cognitive ability as a 53-year-old in 2000.<\/p>\n

It also found better health is associated with later retirement, working more weeks per year, and a lower probability of being unemployed.<\/p>\n

Arthur, who lives in a Churchill Living<\/a> apartment in Reigate, Surrey, was married to wife Betty for 65 years before her death in 2016. They have a daughter Claire, who lives in America, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a happy married life and my wife didn\u2019t go to work after we got married. I loved what I did and never felt I was driven to do it as it was what I wanted to do. It gave my daughter a good education.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t do much in the way of gardening or things at home because I was working most of the time. So if I wanted things done, I tended to get someone in to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arthur says the only time he had a break in his working life was in 1996 when he was diagnosed with leukaemia,<\/a> but he was only off work for about a month.<\/p>\n

He carried on working and driving until the age of 90. He had to stop driving at 90 after being diagnosed with epilepsy.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a business director, I have never been a bully and I always treated people like I like to be treated myself,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I have never suffered fools gladly and I didn\u2019t pamper anyone and I wasn\u2019t pampered myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome managers treat people in a very dictatorial way, but I was never like that and I just tried to get the best out of people and I always seemed to be treated with respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ArthurArthur Lambert with his daughter Claire, who lives in the US, at his 100th birthday party at Churchill Living (Photo: Tim Kavanagh)<\/p>\n

Even now he is no longer working, Arthur keeps himself mentally and socially active and is adept at using IT and is computer literate and uses a tablet and smartphone and keeps his mind stimulated by learning to use new technology.<\/p>\n

Although Arthur credits working longer for keeping his mind and body young and helping him reach a good age, he also believes he has good genes to be grateful for. His mother lived to 101 and his sister is 90 and he says she \u201cdoesn\u2019t look it at all\u201d and she is still driving.<\/p>\n

On the benefits of working longer, the advice Arthur has to offer is: \u201cIf it\u2019s something you enjoy, keeping working has its benefits.<\/p>\n

\"ArthurArthur Lambert at his 100th birthday party with his card from the King (Photo: Tim Kavanagh)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like a chore if you enjoy your work and I do think it is one of the reasons I have lived to a ripe old age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencer McCarthy, chairman and CEO at Churchill Living, which runs independent living for over-sixties including where Arthur lives, said: \u201cWe see firsthand the positive impact of keeping active, staying sociable and having a positive mindset as you get older.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor some of our owners, it is not unusual to continue working well beyond the traditional retirement age.<\/p>\n

\u201cA recent survey also showed us that 98 per cent of people aged over 65 believe a sharp mind is important to staying youthful.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe recently changed our company name from \u2018Churchill Retirement Living\u2019 to just \u2018Churchill Living\u2019, and this was based on extensive research about our customers\u2019 approach to later life.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe dropped the word \u2018retirement\u2019 to reflect society\u2019s changing attitudes, and to emphasise the fact that life at our developments is not all about retirement, it\u2019s about living.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centenarian Arthur Lambert loved working and says it was never a chore – he believes retiring later in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3093],"tags":[973,51,474,28805,28806,3126,2499,2250,16,15,596],"class_list":{"0":"post-54127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-ageing","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-finance","11":"tag-old-age","12":"tag-older-people","13":"tag-pensioners","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-retirement","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-work"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114408637330842619","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}