What is the worst job you have done?

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Recorded Sofia Helin said elsewhere, not written here
Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2020 source ↗

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Archie Panjabi British actress
Redeeming mortgages. I did it for a few weeks, and it sealed the deal that I wanted a career in entertainment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2018 source ↗

Noah Harari Israeli historian and philosopher
When I was 16, at the beginning of the summer vacation, I worked in a factory that made industrial valves and I was a much worse industrial valve producer than historian.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗

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When I had a bicycle accident when I was 24. I was on a bridge going down; the bicycle broke and I smashed to the ground, face first. I broke my jaw and my teeth, and had to have plastic surgery. It all took half a year and then, funnily enough, I got my first big job – a TV series – with what I thought of then as this big, ugly scar.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2020 source ↗

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