David Hasselhoff: 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 David Hasselhoff said elsewhere, not written here

Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Others on this question

Joseph Fiennes English actor

Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

Paterson Joseph British actor and author

Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 February 2020 source ↗

Sandi Toksvig Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer

Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗