Sharon Corr: 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 Sharon Corr said elsewhere, not written here

I worked in my aunt’s bar in Dundalk for about eight years and I remember cleaning the whole bar, including the bathrooms, after a particularly rough St Patrick’s Day.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2023 source ↗

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Ricky Wilson Singer; frontman of Kaiser Chiefs

There have been things within the Kaiser Chiefs I’ve hated – some corporate gigs that I didn’t feel good doing.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2020 source ↗

Joanne Froggatt English actress

Scraping plates in a fish and chip cafe in Whitby.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2019 source ↗

Paula Wilcox

I don’t think I’ve ever done a job that I hate. I worked as a temp briefly when I was out of work and it was fun.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 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 ↗