Mike Skinner: 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.

Mike Skinner

English rapper

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

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Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer

In my first job in film, a giant bloke dressed like a sumo wrestler asked me to get his G-string out of his arse. He said he couldn’t reach it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗

Nick Grimshaw English television and radio presenter

When I was doing A-levels, I worked in a factory that made homework diaries, which was fine until they banned talking and the radio.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

Adjoa Andoh English actress

Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 September 2021 source ↗

PP Arnold

I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗