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.

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Recorded Craig Revel Horwood said elsewhere, not written here
Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

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Jodie Whittaker English actress
Working in a soap factory in Huddersfield. I was in my late teens, so I was basically hungover every day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 September 2018 source ↗

Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian
Collecting glasses in a Lancashire pub. Try to take a pint glass with a millimetre of foam still in it, and you get a lit cigarette on the back of your hand.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

John Waters American filmmaker
I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗

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