Marina Diamandis: 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 Marina Diamandis said elsewhere, not written here

Working at a petrol station.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Monty Don English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer

I once had to dig a fire escape from a basement in a health club. It took two weeks.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 May 2018 source ↗

Melanie Chisholm British pop singer

Working in a chip shop when I was 16. I gave my friends massive portions, but the smell was gross.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 October 2016 source ↗

Rick Astley Singer, songwriter and radio presenter

I haven’t really had a job. I used to work at my dad’s garden centre in my late teens, but it was just messing around.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Neil Gaiman Author of fiction, comics and screenplays

The only job I quit was, aged about 23, subediting a “men’s” magazine. My job was typing out readers’ pornographic fantasies. I started wishing people would reproduce by splitting down the middle.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 October 2023 source ↗