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Best of Design Matters: Dr. D’Wayne Edwards

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

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How I Got a Job as a Temporary File Clerk in LA Gear

After graduating from high school, you got a job working as a temporary file clerk in the accounts payable department of LA Gear. How did you get that job? My friend, me and my friend decided to sign up for this temp agency called Robert Haffton Account Temps. He actually received the assignment to go to LA Gear first, but he didn't want to work in Marina del Rey,. And so they were like, okay, well, then you go. So I found it because it was a sneaker company. Now it wasn't Nike, but it was still a sneakerCompany. And I wasn't in design. I was in accounts payable. This is in 1988.

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