Laura Kenny: 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 Laura Kenny said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve never had a job.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2017 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jane Asher English actress and author

Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗

Sara Pascoe English comedian, presenter, writer

Cleaning toilets at McDonald’s when I was 16.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗

Keir Starmer

Leader of the opposition. I worked with the police service in Northern Ireland and then ran the Crown Prosecution Service. In each of those jobs, if something needed fixing, I could fix it. As leader of the opposition, you are not in power and it’s the most frustrating job I’ve ever had, and a job I hope I don’t have for much longer.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2023 source ↗

Harlan Coben American author

I worked a janitorial job, cleaning university dormitories after students had gone home for the summer. You can’t imagine the condition some of those rooms were in. They could have doubled as sets for a slasher film.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗