Jennifer Hudson: 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 Jennifer Hudson said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve loved all my jobs, even when I worked at Burger King.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

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Kim Wilde English pop singer

I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗

Arlene Phillips

In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗

Esther Rantzen

When I started as a researcher in the BBC, I was working for an editor who was a self-confessed misogynist. He used to practise shooting by aiming his air gun at an aerosol can balanced just over my head. I made it a matter of pride not to flinch as the pellets whizzed by.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 February 2024 source ↗

Douglas Stuart Scottish fashion designer and novelist

When I was about 18, I worked on the chicken counter in a large supermarket, and every morning I had to pierce 64 birds on to industrial skewers to load up the rotisserie. That was very grim.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2023 source ↗