Martin Freeman: 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 Martin Freeman said elsewhere, not written here

The Wimpy in Kingston when I was 16. I’d recently become vegetarian, and there weren’t many veggie burgers in 1988.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗

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Shappi Khorsandi Iranian-born British comedian

Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 February 2017 source ↗

Melanie Chisholm British pop singer

Working in a chip shop when I was 16. I gave my friends massive portions, but the smell was gross.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2016 source ↗

Noah Harari Israeli historian and philosopher

When I was 16, at the beginning of the summer vacation, I worked in a factory that made industrial valves and I was a much worse industrial valve producer than historian.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 October 2021 source ↗

Jack Dee

When I was a kid I had a Saturday job in the stockroom of a supermarket. I remember everything in there being a little bit grubby and slightly sticky. We’d do things like play rugby with a swiss roll. I think of it every time I go shopping.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 November 2024 source ↗

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Question What keeps you awake at night? Daily life

Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 January 2019 source ↗