Adam Kay: 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 Adam Kay said elsewhere, not written here

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.

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

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Carlos Acosta Cuban ballet dancer

Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗

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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

PP Arnold

I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗

Greg James British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter

When I was at school, I had a summer job where I had to buff blocks of plastic for a display unit. The factory only remembered to give us masks on day three.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗