Adjoa Andoh: 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 Adjoa Andoh said elsewhere, not written here

Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 September 2021 source ↗

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Big Narstie British entertainer

When I first got excluded from school at 15, my dad gave me experience as a roofer. That’s when I came to realise I’m scared of heights.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 January 2022 source ↗

Tess Daly English television presenter

Serving bar snacks in a pub in my teens. Once I spilled an entire family’s Sunday lunch into the dad’s lap.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 December 2016 source ↗

Kathy Lette Australian-British author

Bedpan emptier in a hospital.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗

Adrian Edmondson English actor, comedian, musician and writer

I worked in the largest pork pie factory in Europe. I had a plastic mushroom-shaped thing and had to tamp down the meat into the pie base. It was a conveyor belt of pies from nine to five. The worst thing was the crackly AM radio, which was played loudly through the tinny tannoy system. I still can’t listen to I’m Not In Love by 10cc without thinking of raw minced pork.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗