The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That rather assumes I have grown up.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗
A nurse, because my grandmother was a midwife. I was named after her but never got to meet her.
Archaeologist, pop star, store cashier.
A dress designer.
Anything and everything. I watched the Olympics and wanted to be an 800m runner. If I watched Inspector Morse, I wanted to be a pathologist.
That further lessons await.
My local Tesco stopping stocking Häagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Crunch.
When George, Shirlie [the Wham! backing singer, whom Ridgeley dated] and I were knocking about as teenagers.
Male, average height.
Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, which was one of the set texts for my English literature A-level. I have almost finished it.
A ban on music in restaurants.
Sofia Coppola, Shaznay Lewis, Ben Okri, Toyah Willcox, Michael Stipe, Nish Kumar
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