Terence Conran: 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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Terence Conran said elsewhere, not written here

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 ↗

Others on this question

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Louis Theroux British and American journalist and author

There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗

Bernadine Evaristo English author and academic

On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2020 source ↗

Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

Melissa McCarthy American actress

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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 January 2019 source ↗