Woman, 101, Goes Viral After Handing In CV To Get Cash For Favourite Food And Drink

A 101-year-old woman has gone viral after sending her CV to a local business for a job so she can buy her favourite food and wine without asking her daughter for cash.

Centenarian Maria Cardoso, who was born on 3rd November 1919, sent her CV to a food processing plant in the Brazilian municipality of Promissao, to the surprise and delight of staff.

Her great-granddaughter, Pamela Cristina Matias Gomes, told Newsflash: “My family is very large and several members work at the food processing plant.

Pamela Cristina Matias Gomes/Newsflash

“Every time we go to say goodbye, we say ‘Grandma, I’m going to work’, and she always tells us ‘take my CV’.”

Maria’s motivation to work at the plant, albeit in the office and not on the factory floor, was to reduce her financial dependence on her daughter.

Pamela told Newsflash: “She said she wanted to be independent to buy her own things, to buy the meat she likes, and also to buy her wine.”

Pamela Cristina Matias Gomes/Newsflash

After repeated insistence, the family made a CV for the delighted Maria, who did not complete school, which Pamela handed to Marfrig’s HR manager, Juliana Araujo.

Under the heading ‘education’, the family wrote “middle school”, and under ‘extracurricular experience’, they wrote “farm work”, because Maria spent all her working life since she was nine years old on a plantation.

Juliana was so taken by the CV that she posted it on Facebook, where it received hundreds of ‘likes’ and even attracted the attention of the Brazilian media, converting Maria into a minor celebrity in Promissao.

Pamela Cristina Matias Gomes/Newsflash

After Maria’s story hit the press, a wine company got in touch with the family to tell them it would gift monthly bottles to Maria.

Juliana has also promised to give Maria a tour of the plant once the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

With the COVID-19 worries limiting the activities of older people there is no job for her, however, Maria is hoping she still might get lucky.

Pamela Cristina Matias Gomes/Newsflash

Pamela told Newsflash: “The reaction was wonderful. We’re loving it.”

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