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What is the worst job you have ever had?

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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.

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Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs
There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗
Stephen K Amos
I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 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 ↗
Arlene Phillips
In a Dagenham factory at 6am, picking soldiers’ greatcoats from wars around the world to sell at the market in Chelsea. I smelled like mothballs, and no one would come near me.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 June 2025 source ↗

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