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 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 ↗
Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
I worked a janitorial job, cleaning university dormitories after students had gone home for the summer. You can’t imagine the condition some of those rooms were in. They could have doubled as sets for a slasher film.
I have worked in McDonald’s.
My children. My marriage. All those books.
Thank You For The Music by Abba.
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?
Warm and golden, and it smells delicious.
Watching my children play together for hours when they were very young.
Sara Pascoe, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Jo Nesbø, Ann Patchett, Paterson Joseph, Jack Whitehall
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