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.
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Trying to sell frozen food over the phone for a company called American Frozen Foods. It lasted about half an hour. I found myself telling people not to buy too much of it because it could go bad, and my supervisor said, “This job is probably not for you.”
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 January 2022 source ↗
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
After Emmerdale, babysitting. I freaked out – I couldn’t believe people put me in charge of their children.
A comedy gig at an army barracks for thousands of angry, horny squaddies just back from six months in the desert. I was on straight after the stripper.
Redeeming mortgages. I did it for a few weeks, and it sealed the deal that I wanted a career in entertainment.
Leading with joy.
My children’s education.
I would try to be a little nicer to my teachers.
A surgeon. I studied pre-med in Holy Cross College for four years and then I went to acting school.
As a good person.
It feels like all is possible.
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