I'm Sarah Mittnick, and this is Seamwork Radio, where we tell stories about the surprising ways that sewing impacts our lives.

Hi, everybody, welcome to this week's mini episode of Seamwork Radio.

So today we're going to do something that's a little bit different.

All this month we've been talking about small businesses.

And today we wanted to take a moment and talk about seamwork and what our business is all about.

So we're going to talk about that today and I thought I'd start by asking you, Haley, what's the worst job that you've ever had?

I think that would probably be a job that I had in Ready to Wear with a fashion designer that will remain unnamed.

But it was just like, I think kind of like the bad experience that

people imagine in their head when they think about horrible, ready to wear jobs, like we

weren't allowed to eat in the building or in our suite. So we had to like go eat in this like

really disgusting stairwell while people like

walked past us. They didn't pay for parking. So I had to like park really far away and this really

sketchy area. And it was just literally everything about it was bad. The guy who owned the company or the designer, he had a drug problem and he would be gone all day.

He'd come in at the end of the day right before all of the shops are about to close and

like send you on this wild goose chase to like find pink sequined swatches.

Go get 50 swatches for me. And you'd like just be sprinting

around downtown LA in the garment district trying to get all of these swatches for him. Because he like

just woke up from like partying all night and like had an idea for a pink sequin dress. So it was a

horrible job. But it's the job that

led me to pivot to what I do today. So in that sense, I'm really grateful for it. What about you?

Yeah, I feel like you learn something from every job, good or bad, sometimes more from the bad ones.

You know, I think I've been pretty lucky because I haven't had any really, really terrible

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