Irvine Welsh
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Laying down slabs for the council.
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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.
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
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Shane MacGowan
Irish singer-songwriter
Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a job that I hate. I worked as a temp briefly when I was out of work and it was fun.
David Gandy
British model
I worked for a company that stripped an office, including the furniture, over one weekend – so I worked for 48 hours straight.
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Travelling Europe with a friend, when I was 29. She was driving and the brakes went, on one of those vertiginous Italian mountains. It was terrifying for the 20 minutes it took to coast down the mountain.
I cried after I won the Booker.
A pair of Russell & Bromley boots with studs. I have had them for eight years and wear them all the time.
The people I never thanked for what they selflessly gave me in my career; when I was younger I just took it for granted.
When I met my husband, David, in 2006, on Dating Direct.
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