The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗
At university, I worked at a hotel in housekeeping. We saw so many weird things in people’s rooms. Guests would leave sex and party stuff behind!
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
A cafeteria in Glasgow where the manager was horrible. I walked out and got a great job in a betting shop.
An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
That my baseball team, Baltimore Orioles, is always in the basement.
Right after 9/11, Kenny and I went to perform for the troops in Pakistan and Uzbekistan. As we were flying in, an electronic voice went off: “Warning: missile launch! Warning: missile launch!” The Taliban had fired a rocket at us. I was waiting to see the back of the plane blow up, but it didn’t and we landed.
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