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 ↗
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
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.
A movie. Does it have a name? It might do.
I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.
A Dalí painting.
“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.
On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.
Evolve or perish.
Worrying at things.
Not being there for my daughter.
David Ajala, David Vélez, Aidan Gillen, David Arquette, Bill Bailey, Denise Welch
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