Julian Lennon: What is the worst job you have done?

Originally asked

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 Julian Lennon said elsewhere, not written here

I was a waiter with my old friend Justin Clayton; we would sneak in too many drinks and were fired after spilling soup too many times on customers.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2022 source ↗

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Stephen K Amos

I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Rose McGowan American actress and activist

When I was 15, I conned my way into an office job at a company that represented makers of breast implants. The manager had a wart on the end of her tongue that she’d push against her teeth, making a very specific sound.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗

Carol Vorderman

Living in a campervan for a week with Timmy Mallett for a children’s TV show about 40 years ago.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2026 source ↗

John Simm English musician and actor

Working in a very busy bar in the West End when I was trying to pay my way through drama school. I had to dance in a cage in a vest and cycling shorts to Venus by Bananarama, Greased Lightnin’ and Y.M.C.A. every night. It was excruciating.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 March 2023 source ↗