Ardal O'Hanlon: What is the worst job you have done?

The question

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.

Ardal O'Hanlon

Irish comedian and actor

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I was always a watcher.

The Guardian, The Guardian, 27 December 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

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Jared Harris

I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗

Shane MacGowan Irish singer-songwriter

Helping to slaughter farmyard animals as a kid; watching while my aunties cut them up to get their guts out and seeing eggs floating around in the hens. That made me become a vegetarian.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 December 2021 source ↗

Martin Clunes English actor

A kitchen porter at some big telecom office in Wimbledon. I was also a kitchen porter at L’Escargot and, while I was there, a model for Gilbert and George. It was a quick £15 and they were terribly nice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 September 2018 source ↗

Liam Gallagher English singer-songwriter