Elinor Otto is still doing the same work she started doing in 1942, as she is one of the famous "Rosie the Riveter" girls back in World War II, still inserting rivets into wing sections of cargo planes at the age of 93, NBC News reports.
Otto, of Long Beach Calif., wakes up at 4 a.m. every day and drives to work at a Boeing aircraft plant, where she uses a rivet gun on C-17 cargo planes just as she did during the war.
"I'm a working person, I guess. I like to work. I like to be around people that work. I like to get up, get out of the house, get something accomplished during the day," Otto told NBC News.
At the time, Otto needed money and had a son to support, so she signed up as one of the many "Rosies" working while their men fought overseas.
"We were part of this big thing," she said. "We hoped we'd win the war. We worked hard as women, and were proud to have that job."
Though the pay wasn't much (65 cents an hour, about $38 less than she makes now), Otto enjoyed the camaraderie and hard work, especially the chance to go to a dance hall with her work friends at the end of a long week.
"It was ballroom dancing," she said. "I liked that."
After the war ended, the "Rosies" disappeared, and Otto attempted other lines of work, though office jobs and car-hopping didn't interest her. Lucky for Otto, Southern California had come out of the war with a booming aircraft industry, and Otto was invited to come back and work on the assembly line, where she has been working ever since.
Otto has become an inspiration to many, especially her co-workers, who founded the Rosie the Riveter Park in Long Beach this month in celebration of her and the women's empowerment movement known for its iconic poster of Rosie and the slogan "We Can Do It!" She plans to continue working at the aircraft plant until it closes its doors and finishes off the last contract for its C-17 cargo planes.
"When I think to myself, 'Why am I slowing up? Why am I home?' I think that 'Elinor is at work. And Elinor is 93!," her boss, Don Pitcher, told NBC News.
