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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Working at a petrol station.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗
When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
I used to be an ear-piercing specialist when I was 16, and had to pierce babies’ ears. It was horrendous. I had to practise on my friends – several have misplaced piercings.
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
Being delusional and dreaming big.
As fun and of help to others.
Cheerful, sensitive, sassy.
My late 20s, writing my third record.
Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
I would get therapy in my early 20s.
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