Chaka Khan: 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 Chaka Khan said elsewhere, not written here

When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2024 source ↗

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Mariella Frostrup

I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗

Sue Perkins British actress, singer, writer and comedian

Cleaning toilets in a hotel in Croydon when I was 16. A guest once gave me a half-eaten bag of pistachios as a tip, so there were perks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 October 2018 source ↗

Kate Humble

I lived in Cape Town, and I was spotted on the street and signed up by a modelling agency. I did about three shoots before I realised I hate having my photograph taken and I like food.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗

Fran Lebowitz American author and public speaker