Craig Revel Horwood: 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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Craig Revel Horwood

Australian-British choreographer and director

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

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Harlan Coben American author

I worked a janitorial job, cleaning university dormitories after students had gone home for the summer. You can’t imagine the condition some of those rooms were in. They could have doubled as sets for a slasher film.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗

Tuppence Middleton

Christmas elf at the Rainforest Cafe.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗

Róisín Murphy

When I was a teenager, I worked in a vegetable shop on Saturdays, and the guy had a rotation of 10 pretty teenagers working for him and was really sleazy. I only went twice because the second time he made me go up to his flat above the shop and clean his toilet, and he was watching me.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2023 source ↗

Esther Rantzen

When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗