Gloria Estefan: 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 Gloria Estefan said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve only done two and loved them both – one in the band, and the other as an interpreter in customs.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 June 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Rachel Whiteread English artist

Serving tea in an insurance office to people who seemed to despise me at the age of 16 was pretty unpleasant.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2017 source ↗

Gemma Chan British Chinese actress

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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 August 2018 source ↗

Helen George English actress

Waitressing. I was so bad. I smashed things. I once mistakenly ordered a very expensive bottle of wine for a table. They thought they were ordering a very average bottle of wine, and I ordered them an £800 bottle and they drank it. I got the sack a few weeks later.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2023 source ↗

Hayley Squires English actress and playwright

I worked in a call centre. I would go clubbing on a Saturday with my brother and my mates, get home for five or six in the morning, and then have to be at work at 8am.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2020 source ↗