91-year-old Barbara Beskind, has proved that it is never too late to keep trying.
The nonagenarian started a new career as a tech designer for IDEO, a firm in Palo Alto, California.
The Huffington Post reports that Beskind became an employee in 2014 and had since been working primarily on projects that related to ageing, saying her age has been beneficial to her.
Beskind told Today.com, “Age is not a barrier to performance. Live life as an adventure and expect change and endorse it, embrace it.
“I think the beauty of being 91 is that you can look back and see how the little pieces fit into the big pieces of life, and life is a complete puzzle.”
Beskind couldn’t pursue a career as an inventor after high school because the job required an engineering degree.
She then joined the army and became an occupational therapist, after her guidance counsellor had told her that women weren’t accepted by engineering schools
However, in 2013, she saw an interview in which the founder of IDEO, David Kelley, spoke about the importance of diversity on a design team, and decided to apply to work at the firm.
“It took me about two months to write my resume, paring it down from nine pages. Then, I wrote the letter and sent it by snail mail,” Beskind told Today.com.
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