What is the worst job you have done?

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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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Recorded Zoe Ball said elsewhere, not written here
The failed attempt at a home perm on myself in the 80s. I wanted to look like Kelly McGillis in Top Gun.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 December 2020 source ↗

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Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
Scooping ice cream is tougher than it looks. … Rows and rows of rock-hard ice cream can be brutal on the wrists. … I was less interested in what the job meant for my future and more concerned about what it meant for my jump shot.
Recorded LinkedIn, 'Here's the Scoop: Why My First Job Mattered', The Associated Press, 25 February 2016 source ↗
Monty Don English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
I once had to dig a fire escape from a basement in a health club. It took two weeks.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 May 2018 source ↗
Nick Grimshaw English television and radio presenter
When I was doing A-levels, I worked in a factory that made homework diaries, which was fine until they banned talking and the radio.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗
Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian
Collecting glasses in a Lancashire pub. Try to take a pint glass with a millimetre of foam still in it, and you get a lit cigarette on the back of your hand.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

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