Charles Dance: 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 Charles Dance said elsewhere, not written here

Treating a flock of sheep for foot rot when I was a farm labourer.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 November 2024 source ↗

Others on this question

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 ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

John Waters American filmmaker

I worked in a unisex clothes store for three days. Girls would say, 'Do I look fat in this?' I'd say, 'Yes.' I was fired.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗

Geoffrey Rush Australian actor

I was a dishwasher in Paris and a hospital orderly in London. But I did anything that was going.

Recorded James Ashwood, IndieLondon source ↗

Realising what I wanted to do as a career – aged about 22.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 November 2009 source ↗

I’m getting closer all the time.