Omid Djalili: 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 Omid Djalili said elsewhere, not written here

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

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

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Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗

Francesca Martinez British comedian

I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 March 2020 source ↗

Charlotte Church Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

Elaine Paige English singer and actress

Maybe That’s Your Problem, a musical about premature ejaculation. It closed after only 18 performances.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗