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.
The Doctor in Doctor Who. I still do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
An astronaut. I still do.
A fighter pilot.
An actor or a nun.
To work in a dry cleaner’s.
I’d have reported the tutor who asked me to read an essay to him sitting on the toilet as he lay soaping himself in the bath.
Mum, because I never really knew how to cope with her alcoholism.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
A dog, though my husband would prefer a cat.
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
Losing the 1992 general election.
Zack Polanski, Jon Sopel, Malcolm Gladwell, Edmund Hillary, John Lewis, Jess Phillips
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