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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I was 19, I washed up in the basement of a Paris restaurant that stank of rotted food. I did it for six months, until I was promoted to vegetable boy.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2016 source ↗
When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.
I have asked a fireworks company to put my ashes in a collection of rockets, so I think the right tune is Handel’s firework music.
Merging my company with BHS – it was a great mistake.
My ex-wife Caroline, because she found my style of life rather irritating.
At the opening of The Conran Shop in Michelin House: it took a long time to achieve.
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
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