The question
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.
When I was a teenager I worked as a lifeguard, and one of our duties was to clean the showers. It essentially involved cleaning people’s pubes from the drain.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2018 source ↗
Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
I worked in a chicken factory in the Netherlands when I was 16.
Pressing uniforms in a laundry. I was 14. I lied about my age and said I was 16, even though I probably looked about 12.
Fixing a municipal sewer pipe.
Just to be remembered at all would be enough.
In 2012 I stared into the eyes of someone who had just stabbed a man in the neck on the street. I was trying to help the victim; for a very long three or four seconds, I thought he was going to come for me next.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Melissa McCarthy, Andrea Riseborough, Rose McGowan, James Norton, Robert Glenister
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