Stephen K Amos: 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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Stephen K Amos

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Alex Jones American far-right conspiracy theorist

Working in a call centre in Cardiff for British Gas. I was 21 and, I am ashamed to say, one Monday morning I ran away. I said I was going to the loo and never went back.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 August 2021 source ↗

Erin O'Connor English model

Shooting hosiery on top of an iceberg and getting my backside stuck to it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

Bryn Terfel Welsh bass-baritone singer

I cleaned the toilets at the local pub every Saturday morning.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2024 source ↗

Romesh Ranganathan English actor and comedian

I worked at KFC, as a vegetarian, doing Friday and Saturday nights.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2024 source ↗