Caroline Lucas: 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.

Recorded Caroline Lucas said elsewhere, not written here

A holiday job as a chambermaid at the Scratchwood Travelodge on the M1. The state some people leave their rooms in was a revelation.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 April 2024 source ↗

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Kwame Kwei-Armah Actor and playwright

Doing the bins while working for McDonald’s in west Ealing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 October 2018 source ↗

Hayley Squires English actress and playwright

I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗

Adam Kay British comedy writer, author, youtuber, comedian and former physician

A comedy gig at an army barracks for thousands of angry, horny squaddies just back from six months in the desert. I was on straight after the stripper.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2023 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗