The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
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Cold call market research at uni.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗
Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
I have been pretty terrible in quite a lot of terrible things.
I didn’t enjoy a bar job and glass collecting – people could be really rude.
I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.
I constantly forget people’s names when they have literally just told me.
I am a perimenopausal woman, so about two minutes ago, at a dog being adopted on Insta.
Kind, loyal and (slightly) mad.
Always sleep on any decision.
A radio journalist or on the till at Marks & Spencer.
It’s already happened – HRT.
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