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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗
I’ve never had a terrible job. I’ve been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are and I haven’t done them.
I cleaned for a very posh lady in Knightsbridge who made me handwash her knickers. I’d advertised myself in The Lady as a dog walker, so I’m not sure how I ended up there.
I was a bailiff for half a morning. I couldn’t stand it.
I worked for a company that stripped an office, including the furniture, over one weekend – so I worked for 48 hours straight.
That I’m still here.
Premature demise.
That I wasn’t quite as arrogant when I got successful.
Lack of confidence.
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