JC
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 ↗
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.
Others on this question
View all 230 →
Martin Clunes
English actor
A kitchen porter at some big telecom office in Wimbledon. I was also a kitchen porter at L’Escargot and, while I was there, a model for Gilbert and George. It was a quick £15 and they were terribly nice.
I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.
Meera Syal
British writer and actress
Having to clean out my daughter’s digs at university. The memory of the state of that toilet still lives with me.
Marc Almond
English singer
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
More from Jenna Coleman
View profile →Receiving a letter saying I didn’t get into drama school. I felt like Billy Elliot. It was a crushing moment.
I told my mum I wanted to be a swan.
Something tongue-in-cheek: Rescue Me.
That I’ve kept all my friendships with my school friends.
I would take away fear.
Anybody who’s written to me and not heard back yet.
More on craft & work
- What accomplishment matters most to you? 192 answers
- How do you tell when a piece of work is done? 67 answers
- What do you do when you feel creatively stuck? 63 answers
- How does a new piece of work usually begin for you? 60 answers
- How much rewriting or revision do you typically do? 46 answers
- What part of your job would surprise outsiders because it takes up so much of your time? 41 answers
Also answered this
Adrian Dunbar, Steve Pemberton, Romesh Ranganathan, David Hasselhoff, Kiefer Sutherland, Rita Wilson
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All craft & work questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject