Sally Lindsay: 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 Sally Lindsay said elsewhere, not written here

Cold call market research at uni.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

Bernadine Evaristo English author and academic

On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2020 source ↗

David Arquette American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler

When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 source ↗

Martin Freeman English actor

The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗

Bicycle courier: it was literally dicing with death on a minute-to-minute basis for 12 hours a day. It was terrifying and exhausting.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2024 source ↗