Jenna Coleman: What is the worst job you have done?

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 Jenna Coleman said elsewhere, not written here

After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 February 2019 source ↗

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Adrian Dunbar Irish actor

Working in an abattoir.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2022 source ↗

Esther Rantzen

When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

Adrian Edmondson English actor, comedian, musician and writer

I worked in the largest pork pie factory in Europe. I had a plastic mushroom-shaped thing and had to tamp down the meat into the pie base. It was a conveyor belt of pies from nine to five. The worst thing was the crackly AM radio, which was played loudly through the tinny tannoy system. I still can’t listen to I’m Not In Love by 10cc without thinking of raw minced pork.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗

Kathy Lette Australian-British author