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 ↗
It’s also one of the best jobs I’ve done, but two hours in, when everyone’s pissed and ignoring you, hosting the Brit awards can be a tough gig.
I quite enjoyed all my retail jobs (I worked in H&M and Gap), but the worst times were the sale periods. The summer sales – awful.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.
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.
One handsome dude.
Is that the final mix?
People not remembering who I am.
Watching all of Fellini’s movies one summer.
Omid Djalili, Archie Panjabi, James Norton, Gloria Estefan, Bruno Tonioli, Harlan Coben
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