Craig Revel Horwood: 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 Craig Revel Horwood said elsewhere, not written here

Potato-picking in my home town, Ballarat.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

Malcolm Gladwell Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers

I was a reporter for many years at the Washington Post. Although I loved every minute, I don’t think I was a very good reporter.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 April 2021 source ↗

Tom Ellis Welsh actor

When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 September 2021 source ↗

Paul Whitehouse Welsh comedian

I was what I call a “nut lifter” in a factory in Enfield. I had to get nuts and bolts from the production line into big tins.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

At my friend Billy’s funeral last month. He died suddenly in his sleep and was only 61.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

Dancing Queen, by Abba.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

When I got my first professional dance job: West Side Story in Melbourne in 1983.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 December 2018 source ↗

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