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When I first got excluded from school at 15, my dad gave me experience as a roofer. That’s when I came to realise I’m scared of heights.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 January 2022 source ↗
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What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
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Alison Steadman
British actress
Washing dishes when I was a student.
Rick Astley
Singer, songwriter and radio presenter
I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.
Aidan Gillen
Irish actor
Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.
Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies. I started wishing people would reproduce by splitting down the middle.
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