Jane Asher: 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 Jane Asher said elsewhere, not written here

Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗

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Gavin Rossdale British musician

Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2020 source ↗

Jenna Coleman English actress

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

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

Russell Howard British comedian and presenter

Once, I was MC at a Christmas gig in Romford and a woman threw a dildo at my face.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗