Emeli Sandé: 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 Emeli Sandé said elsewhere, not written here

I was a perfume girl at a department store in Aberdeen. I was so bad at it, I didn’t make it to the end of the day.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

I’ve enjoyed every single job, including working at my dad’s chicken shop selling potato gems (fried potato circles) to the surfer dudes.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗

Gavin Rossdale British musician

Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2020 source ↗

Tom Allen British comedian

I once had to sit on a sleigh and pretend to be Bing Crosby for a corporate party. I had to mime to White Christmas over and over again.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 November 2023 source ↗

Julian Lennon English musician, photographer, and philanthropist

I was a waiter with my old friend Justin Clayton; we would sneak in too many drinks and were fired after spilling soup too many times on customers.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2022 source ↗