The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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When I was a teenager I worked as a lifeguard, and one of our duties was to clean the showers. It essentially involved cleaning people’s pubes from the drain.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2018 source ↗
When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.
Working in a warehouse, packing frozen meat. It was a nightmare: I hate the cold and it was very tough.
For two weeks I worked behind the players’ bar at Bolton Wanderers football club – footballers don’t tip.
Reading the news. It’s a dull job.
Just to be remembered at all would be enough.
In 2012 I stared into the eyes of someone who had just stabbed a man in the neck on the street. I was trying to help the victim; for a very long three or four seconds, I thought he was going to come for me next.
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