Kerry Godliman: 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 Kerry Godliman said elsewhere, not written here

Bar and buffet at Top Ten Bingo in Greenford. A lot of the old people were quite bigoted.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

Katharine Hamnett English fashion designer

Hop-picking in Kent when I was 13. The smell was dreadful, and put me off beer for life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 September 2019 source ↗

Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer and songwriter

I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗