Robert Glenister: 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.

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Robert Glenister

English actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

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Zoe Ball British TV and radio personality

The failed attempt at a home perm on myself in the 80s. I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 December 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 ↗

Martin Clunes English actor

A kitchen porter at some big telecom office in Wimbledon. I was also a kitchen porter at L’Escargot and, while I was there, a model for Gilbert and George. It was a quick £15 and they were terribly nice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 September 2018 source ↗

Esther Rantzen

When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗