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.
I remember really wanting to go into space. I liked the idea of flying.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
A teacher. Teachers can change lives.
When I was five, I wanted to be a cleaning lady; when I was nine, I wanted to be the world’s number one tennis player.
Genuinely, the host of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show.
A ballerina. I remain rather disappointed that I became a rock star instead.
It’s like arriving somewhere that you’ve always wanted to be.
I’m happy whenever I’m with my wife, Allegra.
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
A successful marriage, my third.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
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