The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
The failed attempt at a home perm on myself in the 80s. I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.
It’s also one of the best jobs I’ve done, but two hours in, when everyone’s pissed and ignoring you, hosting the Brit awards can be a tough gig.
That’s the 64-million-dollar question.
I cry all the time in front of the telly. I was doing Gogglebox with Julian Clary recently and I cried watching The Piano.
Not playing James Bond.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
Nothing at all.
As a perfectly decent bloke.
Mark Radcliffe, Juliet Stevenson, Gloria Steinem, Craig Revel Horwood, Michelle Collins, Simone Biles
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