Erin O'Connor: 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 Erin O'Connor said elsewhere, not written here

Shooting hosiery on top of an iceberg and getting my backside stuck to it.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2008 source ↗

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David Harewood British actor and presenter

I was a bailiff for half a morning. I couldn’t stand it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 November 2019 source ↗

Charlotte Church Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

It was a double-edged sword, but being a major-label artist, I felt like a commodity, a thing to be sold.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2022 source ↗

Gavin Rossdale British musician

Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2020 source ↗

Rory Kinnear English actor

It’s a toss-up between organising a new filing system at Hammersmith & Fulham social services and relying on tips in the least popular restaurant in London to get through drama school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗