What is the worst job you have done?

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Recorded Peter Sarsgaard said elsewhere, not written here
Caddying for really rich people at this country club in Connecticut when I was a teenager. They would talk like I wasn’t there so I would hear all about their lives, their affairs and their stupidity, and yet I couldn’t say anything.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 February 2024 source ↗

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Johannes Radebe
In South Africa I washed cars, I danced in parking lots and shopping malls, and was a children’s entertainer.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 March 2026 source ↗
Keir Starmer
Leader of the opposition. I worked with the police service in Northern Ireland and then ran the Crown Prosecution Service. In each of those jobs, if something needed fixing, I could fix it. As leader of the opposition, you are not in power and it’s the most frustrating job I’ve ever had, and a job I hope I don’t have for much longer.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2023 source ↗
Shappi Khorsandi Iranian-born British comedian
Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗

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