Tina Does Not Want To Retire.

Tina Sharshon works in the kitchen of a hotel. She has worked there for 23 years. Her friends say, "Tina loves to work. She is a workaholic".

Tina was born in the Ukraine in 1904. She says, "I worked all my life. At eight I was chopping wood and sawing it up". In 1927, she came to Canada. She lived in Saskatchewan and Alberta. In the nineteen fifties, she moved to British Columbia.

Tina had her 91st birthday in February. She does not want to retire from her job. "If I stop working now, I'll die," she says.

Background Information

Many people, especially older people work very hard for their whole lives. It is hard for them to retire because they really wouldn't know what to do with their time. Talk about this. Do you think a person who can still do the job, should be forced to leave a job just because of his or her age? Why or why not? What could be done if the person still wanted to work?

Questions

1. Where does Tina work?

2. What is a workaholic?

3. Where was Tina born?

4. What was she doing at eight years old?

5. When did she come to Canada?

6. Why do you think she came to Canada?

7. What three provinces in Canada has she lived in?

8. When is Tina's birthday?

9. How old is she?

10. Why does she think she'll die if she stops working?