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.
At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗
Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.
I used to be an ear-piercing specialist when I was 16, and had to pierce babies’ ears. It was horrendous. I had to practise on my friends – several have misplaced piercings.
Never getting back to a size 12.
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
Swimming down the Thames on a full moon night 10 years ago. It was dangerous, but extremely joyful.
An actor or a nun.
To my Latin teacher – I was very naughty.
Having someone to love.
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