Charlotte Church: 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 Charlotte Church said elsewhere, not written here

It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Elaine Paige English singer and actress

Maybe That’s Your Problem, a musical about premature ejaculation. It closed after only 18 performances.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗

Rose Tremain English writer

Working as the assistant to an agony aunt on a women’s magazine. When we didn’t get enough heartbreaking letters, we made them up.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗

Jodie Whittaker English actress

Working in a soap factory in Huddersfield. I was in my late teens, so I was basically hungover every day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

Russell Howard British comedian and presenter

Once, I was MC at a Christmas gig in Romford and a woman threw a dildo at my face.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗