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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Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2023 source ↗
Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
I’ve been lucky enough to act for 35 years. The only other job I had was as a cook at a drive-in restaurant, and I enjoyed that as well.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
To let things go.
A grandfather clock for my partner’s birthday.
Having no purpose.
To still be working.
Going through a divorce.
As a child playing in my parents’ garden in Birmingham, which they still have, and where my daughters play, swinging on my swing that my dad made for me.
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