Robbie Williams: What is the worst job you have done?

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 Robbie Williams said elsewhere, not written here

I sold double glazing in Stoke when I was 16. That was for two weeks. Other than that, I’ve never really had a “job”.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2017 source ↗

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Guz Khan

Leafleting for a window company when I was 12. I remember putting them through letterboxes thinking: I’m going to sell drugs, because this is rubbish.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 December 2025 source ↗

Sharon Corr Musical artist

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.

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

Noel Clarke English actor and filmmaker

Cleaning the changing rooms at Kensington leisure centre from the age of 16.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 April 2021 source ↗

Shane MacGowan Irish singer-songwriter

Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 December 2021 source ↗