Omid Djalili: 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 Omid Djalili said elsewhere, not written here

Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

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Liev Schreiber American actor

Acting – it’s also the best, though.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2024 source ↗

Joanna Scanlan British actress and writer

At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗

Rachel Whiteread English artist

Serving tea in an insurance office to people who seemed to despise me at the age of 16 was pretty unpleasant.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2017 source ↗

Michael Ball English singer, presenter and actor

Handing out leaflets for a European coach trip wearing just lederhosen, in February and March in Surrey. It was freezing, and I got fired.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2023 source ↗