The question
What is the worst job you have done?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.
I used to do silver service waitressing at parties and events. The job was great, but there was constant harassment and groping from older men, and I hadn’t found my voice yet. It’s terrifying when you are young and you need a job.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
Working as a waitress in a cocktail bar in Shoreditch, London.
Working in an abattoir.
I’ve never had a terrible job. I’ve been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are and I haven’t done them.
During lockdown, I found out I wasn’t pregnant any more.
A ballet dancer. I danced from age two to 19. Giving up was not a choice; I had complications in an ankle operation.
My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
My nan. She lost her husband at the end of 2019 and over the past year she’s been in isolation, but every single week when we speak, she’s full of hope.
My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.
My younger self: I had no love for her and I was cruel and she never deserved it.
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