Kim Wilde: 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 Kim Wilde said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Paterson Joseph British actor and author

Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 February 2020 source ↗

Emma Bunton British singer

When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗

du Beke English dancer and TV presenter

I was a door-to-door carpet-cleaning salesman. I thought my life was going to end, so I binned that after a day.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2019 source ↗

Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs

There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗