Cybill Shepherd: 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 Cybill Shepherd said elsewhere, not written here

A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

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Archie Panjabi British actress

Redeeming mortgages. I did it for a few weeks, and it sealed the deal that I wanted a career in entertainment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 February 2018 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗

Pauline Black

Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 April 2025 source ↗

Sofia Helin Swedish actress

Acting, when you don’t want to do it or you disagree with everything, is almost like having sex with someone you don’t like. I had one experience like that on stage, in a terrible version of The Cherry Orchard. I put on a wig, dark-coloured contacts and just hoped no one would recognise me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 September 2020 source ↗