Erin O'Connor: 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 Erin O'Connor said elsewhere, not written here

Shooting hosiery on top of an iceberg and getting my backside stuck to it.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

Others on this question

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

David Jason English actor

Scrabbling about under dusty floorboards as an electrician in my early 20s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 May 2021 source ↗

Aidan Gillen Irish actor

Cleaning around the feet of John Malkovich with industrial carpet cleaner while he was trying to learn lines in the foyer of a theatre.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2017 source ↗

Brendan Gleeson Irish actor and director

Fixing a municipal sewer pipe.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2016 source ↗