The question
What is the worst job you have done?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 ↗
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
I was a Harrods store detective for a day. I was so bad at it, one of the other detectives thought I looked suspicious and reported me.
Chipping rust off a crane.
A really bad film for no money: the director had no idea what he was doing and I was wondering: why am I here?
Composer, pirate, scientist, philosopher.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
The wisdom to become who they are in the truth of their spirit.
Alchemy. Love. Resilience.
On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.
Worrying at things.
Andy Serkis, Martin Sheen, Michael Flatley, Carol Vorderman, Mike Skinner, David Gandy
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