The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2023 source ↗
In Brooklyn, I was a dishwasher in a sandwich shop.
When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.
I was a terrible secretary in a publishing company (clumsy, disorganised, hid letters behind the filing cabinet because I was supposed to have done something with them and I wasn’t sure what).
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
This morning I decided I am not going to take a job that I’ve been offered.
Very silly boy.
Handing out the tequilas.
An office in the garden.
Being giving to the detriment of myself.
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
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