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.
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I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
Washing dishes when I was a student.
Double-glazing sales when I was about 16 – on the phone, cold calling. Horrendous.
Missing a cue on stage. I had to come on and move a piece of furniture with another actor and I completely forgot. I looked at the monitor and said, “Why is he standing on his own?” And somebody said, “Aren’t you meant to help him?”
Weirdly, sometimes exhaustion keeps me awake. If I am really tired, I won’t sleep well.
For being joyful.
To trust in the process.
Not actualising my full potential.
A sense of home.
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