The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 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 was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.
When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
A driving licence.
I wanted my own ice-cream van and to be a lollipop lady.
Two friends who work for the NHS, Jason and Kate. One is a paramedic and one has been moved to work in an ICU.
Essential, like oxygen.
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