Mo Farah: 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 Mo Farah said elsewhere, not written here

I have worked in McDonald’s.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗

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Shobna Gulati

When I was younger, I signed up to a job agency and thought I would be doing secretarial work, but they assigned me to clean toilets in a factory in Oldham.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗

Stephen K Amos

I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗

Martin Clunes English actor

A kitchen porter at some big telecom office in Wimbledon. I was also a kitchen porter at L’Escargot and, while I was there, a model for Gilbert and George. It was a quick £15 and they were terribly nice.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 September 2018 source ↗

Rose Tremain English writer

Working as the assistant to an agony aunt on a women’s magazine. When we didn’t get enough heartbreaking letters, we made them up.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗