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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I cleaned for a very posh lady in Knightsbridge who made me handwash her knickers. I’d advertised myself in The Lady as a dog walker, so I’m not sure how I ended up there.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2018 source ↗
A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
I’ve never had a terrible job. I’ve been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are and I haven’t done them.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
I’ve never had a job.
That the last general election didn’t take place later. We might have got rid of the Tories with a couple more weeks.
To all those whose fleeting interaction with me has fallen short of what they’d hoped; the unwitting recipients of my occasional grumpiness.
Worrying that I’ve upset people.
An old camper van that has cost me more in repairs than my house, my wedding and all the holidays I’ve ever been on.
Childbirth. And the wheel of our camper van coming clean off on the M1.
Every time I got drunk and out of order. Especially in my teens and 20s.
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