The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?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.
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗
I was what I call a “nut lifter” in a factory in Enfield. I had to get nuts and bolts from the production line into big tins.
The failed attempt at a home perm on myself in the 80s. I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.
In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
Magical, warm, but also butterflies.
To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
I am a good sleeper.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
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