The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
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Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 source ↗
In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
Working in an abattoir.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
My husband snoring.
It was a small gig and I was doing Three Minute Hero, which has a long, held note at the end, and I fell off the stage.
I fell asleep in a room that had an oil heater and it filled with carbon monoxide and, if it hadn’t been for my husband, Terry, I would have died.
An umbilical cord.
Fizzy like lemonade.
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