What is the worst job you have done?

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Recorded Sharon Corr said elsewhere, not written here
I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 source ↗

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Lucy Beaumont
I worked in a paper factory at five o’clock on a Saturday morning when I was in my early 20s. I’d go out raving the night before, get an hour’s sleep and then go to the factory. I was covered in paper cuts and used to think I heard people talking to me; they gave me a lot of breaks because they thought I was going mad.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 October 2024 source ↗
Terence Conran British restaurateur and designer
When I was 19, I washed up in the basement of a Paris restaurant that stank of rotted food. I did it for six months, until I was promoted to vegetable boy.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2016 source ↗
Roger Allam English actor
Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

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