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.
That would have to be a film called Pickup On 101. It was a very interesting story, about a wandering musician and an old guy on his way back to his home town to spend his last days, but they made it into a pile of dishonest trash.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2017 source ↗
A holiday job as a chambermaid at the Scratchwood Travelodge on the M1. The state some people leave their rooms in was a revelation.
When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.
A movie. Does it have a name? It might do.
Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.
Golfer, priest, police officer, teacher and, after going to the movies, actor.
My wife Janet: she is the most scrupulously honest human being I have ever encountered.
1 May 1981 in Paris, because that’s the day I was reconverted to Catholicism.
My son Ramón was the victim of my wrath at a particular time that still withers me with disgrace.
That I was partially responsible for bringing some extraordinary human beings into the world, and they responded to me as a loving father.
After the initial travel ban debacle, I wept with joy at all the good people who came out against this fascistic edict.
Rosanna Arquette, Robert Carlyle, Adrian Edmondson, Craig Charles, Jessica Brown Findlay, Brendan Gleeson
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