What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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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.

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A travel agent, so I could see the world.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2023 source ↗

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Adrian Edmondson English actor, comedian, musician and writer
I only ever wanted to be an actor or a rock star. I was suspended from school in the sixth form and allowed back only when I promised to join the army. But I lied.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 July 2018 source ↗
Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
And all the while I was growing up, of course, there were just constant conversations about money and money being tight and how are we going to make ends meet and sometimes not having enough money. And it really just made me committed to living a life with much more financial security.
Recorded Farai Chideya, News & Notes, Leading Ladies series, NPR, 22 March 2007 source ↗
Roger Allam English actor
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗

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