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.
Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2026 source ↗
Working at a petrol station.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
The wisdom to become who they are in the truth of their spirit.
Worrying at things.
“You don’t stand a chance of succeeding as a writer in this country. The demographics are against you.” They were wrong. The only demographic that counts is the human heart.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
Composer, pirate, scientist, philosopher.
Alchemy. Love. Resilience.
Viv Albertine, Erin O'Connor, Emeli Sandé, Siri Hustvedt, Rose Tremain, Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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