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Fixing a municipal sewer pipe.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2016 source ↗
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What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
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Kim Wilde
English pop singer
I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer.
I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
Charles Dance
British actor
Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.
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