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By the Numbers

COURTESY GAVIN REYNOLDS

This issue of TFK features people who are passionate about their career. Get inspired by these job-related Guinness World Records to find your own path to career success. What record would you like to set one day?

83 Sausages

is how many Gavin Reynolds (above), of the United Kingdom, produced in under a minute, to set this world record. That’s one speedy chef!

2,000 Roles

is the most that any film actor has had in a career. The record was set by an American actor, Tom London. He appeared in at least 2,000 movies from 1903 until 1959.

87 Years

is the record for the longest teaching career, held by Medarda de Jesús León de Uzcátegui, of Venezuela. In 1911, she and her sisters set up a community school. She was 12 years old at the time.

136,887 Miles

is the most walked during a career. Over a period of 40 years, Stanley E. Rychlicki, a pipeline inspector in Pennsylvania and New York, often walked more than 20 miles a day.