Jimmy Akingbola: What is the worst job you have ever had?

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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Jimmy Akingbola

British-Nigerian TV, theatre and film actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Working in a warehouse, packing frozen meat. It was a nightmare: I hate the cold and it was very tough.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2020 source ↗

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Roger Allam English actor

Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

Archie Panjabi British actress

Redeeming mortgages. I did it for a few weeks, and it sealed the deal that I wanted a career in entertainment.

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

Lucy Beaumont

I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗

Lucy Worsley English historian