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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗
I was a Harrods store detective for a day. I was so bad at it, one of the other detectives thought I looked suspicious and reported me.
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
Last week. I had quite a bad anxiety attack.
The person who had to empty the bin on that train to Oxford.
Michael Palin. He’s managed to master several disciplines. He’s also proved that being nice doesn’t mean boring.
If I had known what a stylist was when I joined Radio 1, I would have enlisted the help of one.
An impenetrable team.
Jo Nesbø, Sue Perkins, Fran Lebowitz, Joanna Scanlan, Neil Gaiman, Bernadine Evaristo
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