Kiell Smith-Bynoe: 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 Kiell Smith-Bynoe said elsewhere, not written here

Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

Ralf Little English actor, writer, former semi-professional footballer

For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 February 2020 source ↗

Jo Nesbø Norwegian writer and musician

I worked on a trawler and I was seasick the whole time.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2026 source ↗

Martin Kemp English musician and actor

Gary and I worked in a greengrocer’s on Saturdays and in the holidays. One of my jobs was cooking beetroot – it used to make me gag.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 July 2018 source ↗

Monty Don English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer

I once had to dig a fire escape from a basement in a health club. It took two weeks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 May 2018 source ↗