What is the worst job you have done?

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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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Recorded Julien Macdonald said elsewhere, not written here
Working in a betting office on Grand National day. I was 17 and my hair was scrunched like Mick Hucknall’s.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 October 2016 source ↗

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Martin Compston Scottish actor
There was a period when I did four or five terrible films. My agent said: “Don’t do them.” But it was my month’s rent for a day’s work. One time, my green room was a lorry. It started snowing and it was just me and a plastic chair in the back of an open lorry. It was pretty grim.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2022 source ↗
Monty Don English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
I once had to dig a fire escape from a basement in a health club. It took two weeks.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 May 2018 source ↗
Julian Sands British actor
Father Christmas at a department store. The plaintive sadness of the children’s unrealistic requests was almost unbearable.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 May 2020 source ↗

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