The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?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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Shucking oysters one summer in Nice.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
I worked in the stores of Edgware hospital when I was about 17, and it was grey and depressing.
Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.
People not remembering who I am.
You have to go to the end of the line.
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
Is that the final mix?
Watching all of Fellini’s movies one summer.
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Omid Djalili, Archie Panjabi, James Norton, Gloria Estefan, Bruno Tonioli, Harlan Coben
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