A Brazilian man who turned 100 years old earlier this month holds the world record for the longest career at a single company.
Walter Orthmann’s world record of 84 years and nine days with a textile company called ReneauxView was confirmed and certified earlier this year, Guinness World Records announced Wednesday. He was hired at the age of 15 and has worked for the company ever since, the company verified.
“I don’t do much planning, nor care much about tomorrow,” Orthmann said in a news release. “All I care about is that tomorrow will be another day in which I will wake up, get up, exercise, and go to work. You need to get busy with the present, not the past or the future. Here and now is what counts. So, let’s go to work!”
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The centenarian said he started working at the company, then called Industrias Renaux S.A., when his family fell on hard financial times. He got the job at the weaving mill due to his proficiency in German, a language in which he was fluent because he was born in the heavily German town of Brusque in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
The record-breaking career began when Orthmann was hired as a shipping assistant in 1938, and he has since moved up the ranks, becoming an administrative assistant, then landing a job in sales before becoming a sales manager, which is the position he continues to hold. Although he no longer travels for his work, he is in charge of coordinating a team of representatives.
Orthmann, who remains in good health, said the best advice he can give people is to work for a good company in a field where they feel motivated to succeed. His success came from his outstanding skills, openness, and eagerness to do more than expected, according to the news release.
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The centenarian broke his own world record of 81 years and 85 days, which he set in 2019. While Orthmann said his job as a sales manager gives him a sense of purpose and commitment, the world record is his proudest achievement.
“With my Guinness World Records title, I feel proud, honored, and happy to have achieved something that on the one hand is rather rare, but on the other is simply the result of my passion to work as something that makes me wholesome,” Orthmann said at the time.
