Robbie Williams: What is the worst job you have done?

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 Robbie Williams said elsewhere, not written here

I sold double glazing in Stoke when I was 16. That was for two weeks. Other than that, I’ve never really had a “job”.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2017 source ↗

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Karamo Brown American television host, personality and actor

Selling newspapers outside the grocery store for two years.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 September 2021 source ↗

Cressida Cowell British writer

I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2020 source ↗

Gemma Chan British Chinese actress

When I was a teenager I worked as a lifeguard, and one of our duties was to clean the showers. It essentially involved cleaning people’s pubes from the drain.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2018 source ↗

Jack Dee

When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗