The question
What is the worst job you have ever had?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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I had to choreograph dancing cows for a commercial. I had to superimpose footage of dancing legs – some were mine – on to the cow. It was bonkers.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 April 2023 source ↗
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
Looking after the flowerbed on my windowsill.
Giving barium enemas. I used to be a radiographer in Coventry.
Standing outside a pub in Acton on a freezing February day in a threadbare overcoat doing market research.
Growing up as a gay boy in a small town, you get used to people saying bad things pretty quickly.
Do you have 10 pages? Once, I was dancing in a costume that was like a corset. During a move, the corset ripped and exploded, and I had to carry on doing the number practically in my jockstrap.
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
Oprah Winfrey. Considering the cards she was dealt at birth, what she has achieved is quite something.
That I did everything I had to and I never gave up!
Meanness and lying.
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