What is the worst job you have done?

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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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Charlotte Church said elsewhere, not written here
It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

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Bruno Tonioli Italian choreographer
I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
I was a waitress at a holiday camp. On a Wednesday afternoon all the guys used to pee into the rice pudding and we had to serve it to the customers.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗
Joseph Fiennes English actor
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

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