The question

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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Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor
Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗
Mo Gilligan British comedian
Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 November 2021 source ↗
Emeli Sandé British singer
I was a perfume girl at a department store in Aberdeen. I was so bad at it, I didn’t make it to the end of the day.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2017 source ↗
Denise Welch
I was a waitress at a holiday camp. On a Wednesday afternoon all the guys used to pee into the rice pudding and we had to serve it to the customers.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2023 source ↗

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