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 wanted to perform in some way, but I didn’t think it was viable. Teachers told me I should be a barrister, because I was always arguing with them.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 April 2021 source ↗
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.
Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.
I already had a career when I was growing up.
First loved, then laid, then paid.
Some of my teachers. I was a bit of a handful as a kid. They were just trying to do their job and I made it very difficult.
If I am remembered at all that would be nice. I won’t be picky.
Less admin, emails, phone calls; more space to think, read and sleep.
I would care less about what people think.
The thought that I could be doing more: being more productive, doing more of the things that matter, and less of the things that don’t.
Openness, curiosity and compassion.
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