Joseph Fiennes: 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 Joseph Fiennes said elsewhere, not written here

Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗

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Mike Skinner English rapper

Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

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

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

Carlos Acosta Cuban ballet dancer

Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗

Joan Jett American singer, songwriter and guitarist

I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 November 2020 source ↗