David Arquette: What is the worst job you have done?

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.

Recorded David Arquette said elsewhere, not written here

When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 source ↗

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Katharine Hamnett English fashion designer

Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2019 source ↗

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Irish actor

Two days as a labourer in my 15th summer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗

Greg James British author, broadcaster, comedian, and presenter

When I was at school, I had a summer job where I had to buff blocks of plastic for a display unit. The factory only remembered to give us masks on day three.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 March 2019 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

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Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains

I got stabbed in the neck with a light tube during a wrestling “death match” two years ago. It was scary. I thought I was dying: your life does flash before your eyes.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 source ↗