Mariella Frostrup: What is the worst job you have done?

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 Mariella Frostrup said elsewhere, not written here

I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

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Paul Whitehouse Welsh comedian

I was what I call a “nut lifter” in a factory in Enfield. I had to get nuts and bolts from the production line into big tins.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 June 2018 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗

Robert Carlyle Scottish actor

The worst was as a butcher, aged 17.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗

Sheryl Crow American singer-songwriter

I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗