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.
When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗
About five years ago, I was in a play that was an unmitigated disaster. I had to rally the troops and go out every night.
Digging foundations in the freezing-cold Chicago winters.
Washing dishes when I was a student.
I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.
The trans community because I didn’t use the correct words, but I’ve learned from my mistake.
A mortician – I worked in a funeral home when I was 14.
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
A warm blanket.
Waking people up.
I wouldn’t have taken that meeting [with Weinstein in 1997].
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