Nick Grimshaw: What is the worst job you have done?

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.

Recorded Nick Grimshaw said elsewhere, not written here

When I was doing A-levels, I worked in a factory that made homework diaries, which was fine until they banned talking and the radio.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

Jane Asher English actress and author

Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗

Laura Kenny English cyclist

I’ve never had a job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Irish actor

Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗

Paul McKenna British hypnotist and TV personality

I was a Harrods store detective for a day. I was so bad at it, one of the other detectives thought I looked suspicious and reported me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 January 2023 source ↗

A breakfast show that starts at noon.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

My mum. I just got back off holiday with her and we had the most fun. She’s game for whatever.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

Genuinely, the host of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

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