John Waters: 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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John Waters

American filmmaker

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗

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Louis Theroux British and American journalist and author

There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗

Shane MacGowan Irish singer-songwriter

Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 December 2021 source ↗

Emma Bunton British singer

When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗

du Beke English dancer and TV presenter