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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I got sacked from TK Maxx for falling asleep under the coats.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 January 2026 source ↗
Working on an assembly line in a plastics factory.
I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.
Maybe That’s Your Problem, a musical about premature ejaculation. It closed after only 18 performances.
Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
“What is Seann Walsh and how do we make it die?” It was online, thankfully. It wasn’t in Sainsbury’s.
A house in west London.
Certainty. I also can’t stand it when someone calls you and then says, “Wait, I need to put my headphones in.”
At school, I got my head stuck in a balustrade on the stairs at lunchtime. I had pupils laughing at me, parents laughing at me, teachers laughing at me and eventually, at the end of the day, the fire brigade laughing at me.
Outside my very close-knit group of friends, socially I’m terrible.
Enthusiastic, chaotic, bungling.
Andy Serkis, Martin Sheen, Michael Flatley, Carol Vorderman, Mike Skinner, David Gandy
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