Roger Allam: 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 Roger Allam said elsewhere, not written here

Picking tiny bits of glass out of long grass for Haringey council, 45 years ago.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

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Kerry Godliman

Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Romesh Ranganathan English actor and comedian

I worked at KFC, as a vegetarian, doing Friday and Saturday nights.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2024 source ↗

Corinne Bailey Rae

I worked in a cafe, which I loved, but when it was quiet we had to scrape the fat out from between the tiles on the floor with a butter knife.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2023 source ↗

Robert Glenister English actor

The back end of a horse in panto in Newcastle in 1979.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

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Question What did you want to be when you were growing up? Identity & self

When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

Question What most recently made you cry? Identity & self

Reading aloud the last two pages of a book about Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. It was about his relationship with his cat, and a letter to a friend whose dog had died. It’s about letting the unexpected happen to you, and how that can really be what life is about.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗