Adjoa Andoh: 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 Adjoa Andoh said elsewhere, not written here

Cleaning men’s toilets in the Swan hotel in the Cotswolds.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 September 2021 source ↗

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Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

A movie called The Return that was about cows from outer space.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

Craig Charles English actor

Filming a TV show in a field in the snow in February in the Dublin hills for 14 hours; the director said, “We’re not going to get that shot today.”

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 July 2024 source ↗

Siri Hustvedt American novelist, essayist, poet

I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗

Jessica Brown Findlay English actress

I used to do silver service waitressing at parties and events. The job was great, but there was constant harassment and groping from older men, and I hadn’t found my voice yet. It’s terrifying when you are young and you need a job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 March 2021 source ↗