Sharon Corr: 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 Sharon Corr said elsewhere, not written here

I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

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Louis Theroux British and American journalist and author

There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗

Ben Okri

Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 July 2026 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗