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.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
I dreamed of being an artistic skater. And a nursery nurse.
Exactly what I am now.
I wanted to be in the WWF – the wrestling one, not the wildlife one.
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.
Arrogance and narcissism.
Impatience and vanity.
We become fertiliser.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
Warm and embracing.
Spirit of adventure and kindness.
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