I worked in a sewing factory in a small town in East TN, my junior and senior years in high school. At the first one we make men's/children's underwear. I sew the legs on the briefs. Like other said it was boring and every time you started making your quota (it was called production then) they would raise it. The entire back wall was a huge white board with our names and the number of the bundles you sewed each day. At the 2nd one, I sew collars for ladies blouses and blazers also set sleeves. Boring work, but in this same town factory work was all there was close at home.