What is the worst job you have done?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Recorded James Norton said elsewhere, not written here
I worked in the customer services department of a mobile phone gambling company and it was very depressing, because the people calling up were usually not happy.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗

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PP Arnold
I worked in a Helms Bakery assembly line that separated egg whites from the yolks and from time to time a box of rotten eggs would come through. Need I say more?
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
Martin Compston Scottish actor
There was a period when I did four or five terrible films. My agent said: “Don’t do them.” But it was my month’s rent for a day’s work. One time, my green room was a lorry. It started snowing and it was just me and a plastic chair in the back of an open lorry. It was pretty grim.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 March 2022 source ↗
David Arquette American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler
When I was young, selling maps to stars’ homes in Hollywood, somebody flashed their wiener at me. It was traumatising.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 January 2021 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 ↗

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