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.
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I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2019 source ↗
Working in a chip shop when I was 16. I gave my friends massive portions, but the smell was gross.
Selling newspapers outside the grocery store for two years.
Selling double glazing.
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
When I have a to-do list and finish it in the time I intended to.
Like the froth on top of a hot chocolate.
I thoroughly enjoyed high school in Nairobi: it was before everybody had a camera on their phone. I experimented with fashion and hairstyles that I am glad I don’t have any record of.
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