The question
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.
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2016 source ↗
When I was a kid I was a chambermaid in my family’s hotel, and I once found a strap-on that someone had left behind.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.
Redeeming mortgages. I did it for a few weeks, and it sealed the deal that I wanted a career in entertainment.
My ex-wife Caroline, because she found my style of life rather irritating.
Merging my company with BHS – it was a great mistake.
All-embracing: when you find it, you don’t want to let it go.
At the opening of The Conran Shop in Michelin House: it took a long time to achieve.
I have asked a fireworks company to put my ashes in a collection of rockets, so I think the right tune is Handel’s firework music.
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