Russell Mael: 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.

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Recorded Russell Mael said elsewhere, not written here

Shucking oysters one summer in Nice.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗

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Tom Burke

A movie. Does it have a name? It might do.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗

Meera Syal British writer and actress

Having to clean out my daughter’s digs at university. The memory of the state of that toilet still lives with me.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 April 2018 source ↗

Guz Khan

Leafleting for a window company when I was 12. I remember putting them through letterboxes thinking: I’m going to sell drugs, because this is rubbish.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 December 2025 source ↗

Robbie Williams English singer

I sold double glazing in Stoke when I was 16. That was for two weeks. Other than that, I’ve never really had a “job”.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 May 2017 source ↗