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.
Christmas elf at the Rainforest Cafe.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2026 source ↗
Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.
I was the PE technician at my old secondary school, so I had to pump up all the balls, wash all the kits and get the form notes in before morning registration every day.
A 12-hour nightshift at a toy factory in Southend.
It’s also one of the best jobs I’ve done, but two hours in, when everyone’s pissed and ignoring you, hosting the Brit awards can be a tough gig.
Anyone who can pick up a house spider with their bare hands.
Congratulating Dua Lipa on managing to release a single in such a tough industry, because I thought she was a struggling indie artist. I Googled her the next day and realised that she has 88 million followers.
I bought a house with someone and realised at the housewarming party that it was a mistake.
Tenacious, romantic, organised.
Try not to take yourself too seriously.
Doing a compulsory standup routine in my first week of drama school.
Martin Clunes, Charles Dance, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Craig Revel Horwood, Emeli Sandé, Rose Tremain
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