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 ↗
Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.
Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.
Working in a chip shop when I was 16. I gave my friends massive portions, but the smell was gross.
Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.
My mother: she’s an inspiration. She went back to college in her 40s, started karate and became a black belt.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
Magical, warm, but also butterflies.
I am a good sleeper.
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
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.
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