The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?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.
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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.
Working in a warehouse, packing frozen meat. It was a nightmare: I hate the cold and it was very tough.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
When I was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
Magical, warm, but also butterflies.
My mother: she’s an inspiration. She went back to college in her 40s, started karate and became a black belt.
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