Rita Wilson: 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 Rita Wilson said elsewhere, not written here

I was a ticket taker at the Universal Amphitheatre, an outdoor music venue. I saw everybody – Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, the Eagles, Elton. But, after that, we had to clean the women’s restrooms and that was horrible. There was a lot of drinking, a lot of vomiting, a lot of very messy bathrooms.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗

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Romola Garai

I’ve done some acting jobs where everybody’s gone out of their way to make sure that you feel annoying and easily replaceable.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 September 2024 source ↗

Terence Conran British restaurateur and designer

When I was 19, I washed up in the basement of a Paris restaurant that stank of rotted food. I did it for six months, until I was promoted to vegetable boy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2016 source ↗

Romesh Ranganathan English actor and comedian

I worked at KFC, as a vegetarian, doing Friday and Saturday nights.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2024 source ↗

Dervla Kirwan

About five years ago, I was in a play that was an unmitigated disaster. I had to rally the troops and go out every night.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗