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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A kitchen porter at some big telecom office in Wimbledon. I was also a kitchen porter at L’Escargot and, while I was there, a model for Gilbert and George. It was a quick £15 and they were terribly nice.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 September 2018 source ↗
In Brooklyn, I was a dishwasher in a sandwich shop.
Working as the assistant to an agony aunt on a women’s magazine. When we didn’t get enough heartbreaking letters, we made them up.
In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
Gulliver’s Travels at Adelaide Fringe.
I often cry when people do things well, like on Britain’s Got Talent; I cried at the old ladies doing finger knitting.
A bespoke wagonette I had made in Germany; I drive a pair of Clydesdale horses called Ronnie and Bruce.What do you most dislike about your appearance? The lot.
On childhood family holidays in Mallorca, with my mum, dad and sister, Amanda.
Abseiling down a cliff for Doc Martin in a suit, carrying a medical bag.
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