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 ↗
Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.
I sold double glazing in Stoke when I was 16. That was for two weeks. Other than that, I’ve never really had a “job”.
When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
My ex-wife Caroline, because she found my style of life rather irritating.
Merging my company with BHS – it was a great mistake.
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
At the opening of The Conran Shop in Michelin House: it took a long time to achieve.
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.
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