Cressida Cowell: What is the worst job you have done?

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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 Cressida Cowell said elsewhere, not written here

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).

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

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Fran Lebowitz American author and public speaker

I just hate to work, so I can’t choose one.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 June 2022 source ↗

Liam Gallagher English singer-songwriter

Digging holes in Manchester in January.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗

Kate Humble

I lived in Cape Town, and I was spotted on the street and signed up by a modelling agency. I did about three shoots before I realised I hate having my photograph taken and I like food.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

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Question What keeps you awake at night? Daily life

Anxiety. Have I finished this? Will I make the deadline? Could I have done that better? Are the children OK? Is the husband OK? Is the dog OK? Did I leave the oven on?

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