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 chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
When I was 16, at the beginning of the summer vacation, I worked in a factory that made industrial valves and I was a much worse industrial valve producer than historian.
The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
A foreign correspondent.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
During the first three months of the first lockdown. I was at home with my family and I was such a cliche: I was baking sourdough, making my own granola. It was an idyllic time.
The music journalist Paul Morley described me as bland.
A few zeros on my bank balance.
Reading a newspaper.
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