Designing from Life Lessons Learned

By Andre Sandifer

When I was in high school, my mom got laid off from GM for two years and worked for a cleaning service, cleaning the offices of a book company. Needing a job, I worked for the same service, cleaning a furniture company’s offices. I’d finish work early and go to look at their various manufacturing processes. One of the guys in the finishing department asked how old I was and said, “I…