Craig David
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Selling double glazing.
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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.
When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.
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Bruno Tonioli
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I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
Björn Ulvaeus
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A cabaret act with Agnetha, Frida and Benny. It was in a nightclub in Gothenburg and one night we had seven in the audience. It was before we found out that we were a pop group.
Judith Kerr
British writer and illustrator
Secretary to a lawyer. I was sacked after a week.
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My creative freedom. I was the creative director of a large fashion brand when I packed it all in to pursue my writing.
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At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.
People who can’t hear other points of view. Absolute certainty always scares me a little.
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