The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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I shucked oysters for a day without the proper knife or gloves. I had to go to hospital as I’d ripped my hands up. I can’t recommend it as a career option.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 January 2019 source ↗
There was a period when I did four or five terrible films. My agent said: “Don’t do them.” But it was my month’s rent for a day’s work. One time, my green room was a lorry. It started snowing and it was just me and a plastic chair in the back of an open lorry. It was pretty grim.
There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.
I have worked in McDonald’s.
I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.
That in 2019 we’re still dealing with people hating people or people wanting to keep women down. That we haven’t evolved past that is a huge disappointment.
I wanted to make women’s clothing. I also said that I wanted to be an artist; I don’t think I ever said I wanted to be an actress, but I remember thinking that would be fun.
That I have strong, happy girls.
Gloria Steinem, because her whole life has been spent trying to help people.
There is an ease to it. It’s not all butterflies and sky rockets, it’s more like absolute comfort.
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