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What is the worst job you have ever had?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Peter Sarsgaard
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Caddying for really rich people at this country club in Connecticut when I was a teenager. They would talk like I wasn’t there so I would hear all about their lives, their affairs and their stupidity, and yet I couldn’t say anything.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗

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Gavin Rossdale British musician
Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2020 source ↗
Jessica Raine British actress
A temp job at BT. I still have nightmares about ADSL lines. I still don’t know what one is. I would find myself on national conference calls being questioned about ADSL lines and told that the problem was in London. I would try not to breathe so they would forget I was there.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2019 source ↗
Malcolm Gladwell Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
I was a reporter for many years at the Washington Post. Although I loved every minute, I don’t think I was a very good reporter.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 April 2021 source ↗

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