Kiefer Sutherland: 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 Kiefer Sutherland said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve been lucky enough to act for 35 years. The only other job I had was as a cook at a drive-in restaurant, and I enjoyed that as well.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 September 2017 source ↗

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Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

Laura Kenny English cyclist

I’ve never had a job.

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

Jessica Brown Findlay English actress

I used to do silver service waitressing at parties and events. The job was great, but there was constant harassment and groping from older men, and I hadn’t found my voice yet. It’s terrifying when you are young and you need a job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗

Róisín Murphy

When I was a teenager, I worked in a vegetable shop on Saturdays, and the guy had a rotation of 10 pretty teenagers working for him and was really sleazy. I only went twice because the second time he made me go up to his flat above the shop and clean his toilet, and he was watching me.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 September 2023 source ↗