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.
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 ↗
I worked in a cafe, which I loved, but when it was quiet we had to scrape the fat out from between the tiles on the floor with a butter knife.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
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 worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
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.
Spending over half my life under Tory rule.
My password. [In 2014, Brown Findlay’s iCloud account was hacked.]
My younger self: I had no love for her and I was cruel and she never deserved it.
A ballet dancer. I danced from age two to 19. Giving up was not a choice; I had complications in an ankle operation.
My wedding day last year. It was supposed to be 4 April and, in the end, it was 12 September.
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