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What is the worst job you have ever had?

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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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Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs
There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗
David Jason English actor
Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 May 2021 source ↗
I waited tables for one night at the turn of the century. They were being fussy about how I put the food on the plates, and I couldn’t have cared less.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2019 source ↗

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