What is the worst job you have done?

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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.

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Recorded Jodie Whittaker said elsewhere, not written here
Working in a soap factory in Huddersfield. I was in my late teens, so I was basically hungover every day.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

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Sandi Toksvig Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer
Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 March 2018 source ↗
Cressida Cowell British writer
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).
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 September 2020 source ↗
Jo Nesbø Norwegian writer and musician
I worked on a trawler and I was seasick the whole time.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2026 source ↗

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