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What is the worst job you have ever had?

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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.

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Lucy Beaumont
Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗

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Daryl McCormack Irish actor
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗

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