What is the worst job you have done?

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Recorded Martin Compston said elsewhere, not written here
There was a period when I did four or five terrible films. My agent said: “Don’t do them.” But it was my month’s rent for a day’s work. One time, my green room was a lorry. It started snowing and it was just me and a plastic chair in the back of an open lorry. It was pretty grim.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2022 source ↗

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Rose McGowan American actress and activist
When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗
Mo Gilligan British comedian
Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗

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