Paul Whitehouse: 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.

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Recorded Paul Whitehouse said elsewhere, not written here

I was what I call a “nut lifter” in a factory in Enfield. I had to get nuts and bolts from the production line into big tins.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

Aidan Gillen Irish actor

Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

Martin Freeman English actor

The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗

David Hasselhoff American actor, singer, and television personality

Selling fire alarms at 18 or 19.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2009 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

When my dad died this year.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

When I came round after being seriously ill. I’d had a dose of morphine, the sun was shining and I thought, “Ah yes, I live!”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

The eradication of poverty would be nice, but at the moment, a double macchiato.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

A professional footballer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

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