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What is the worst job you have ever had?

230 answers answered between 2008 and 2026 one of 25 in The Q&A

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 205 Politics and public life 10 Business and finance 6 Technology 1 Sport 8
Read by age Any age Before thirty 3 In their thirties 48 In their forties 49 In their fifties 54 In their sixties 47 Seventy and beyond 27
Julien Macdonald Welsh fashion designer
Working in a betting office on Grand National day. I was 17 and my hair was scrunched like Mick Hucknall’s.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 October 2016 source ↗
Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist
When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗

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