The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?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.
At the BBC, in the old days, a piece of paper was sent to various households for them to report on what they’d watched that week. In my early 20s, I collated the data. It was deeply boring.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 March 2018 source ↗
I worked on a trawler and I was seasick the whole time.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
When I was at school, I had a summer job where I had to buff blocks of plastic for a display unit. The factory only remembered to give us masks on day three.
On a cosmetics production line. I walked out after half a day.
Swimming down the Thames on a full moon night 10 years ago. It was dangerous, but extremely joyful.
Having someone to love.
An actor or a nun.
The plastics episode of Blue Planet.
To my Latin teacher – I was very naughty.
Never getting back to a size 12.
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