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.
A comedian, and I may have achieved that.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 December 2024 source ↗
Many things. I remember wanting to be a vet, a ballet dancer and a hairdresser.
A cellist, inspired by my mum and dad’s friendship with Jacqueline du Pré, and seeing a documentary about her.
A vet, but I wasn’t smart enough.
I always wanted to be a rapper.
A good understanding of how to use a computer.
As someone who added to a situation rather than took away from it.
In 1992 I was in New York, and somebody showed me a work by Louise Bourgeois. I never realised that sculpture could move me, and I was so affected by this piece that I bought it. It was a lot of money.
The fact that I might wake up early.
Gabor Maté. He is very eloquent and articulate about the role of trauma in our lives.
A few haircuts.
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