Bobbi Brown: What is the worst job you have ever had?

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.

Bobbi Brown

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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du Beke English dancer and TV presenter

I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2019 source ↗

Joseph Fiennes English actor

Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

Chiwetel Ejiofor English actor

At King’s College hospital when I was 16; the job was putting hundreds of pieces of A4 paper into A4 transparent envelopes. I lasted one day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2024 source ↗

Rita Wilson American actress, singer, and producer

I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗