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 travel agent.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2024 source ↗
J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
An ambulance driver.
I always wanted to play tennis. Otherwise, I always thought it would be fun to do something in mathematics or physics.
A saxophonist, but destiny chose another path for me, and I’m glad it happened that way.
Fiercely loyal, funny, easy-going. I’m sure my daughter and stepdaughters wouldn’t agree with the last bit, but I think I am.
I can’t bear people who lie.
When my daughter and my stepdaughters were feeling unhappy, we used to pretend to unlock something in their heart and then pour golden liquid into them, and it always warmed them. For me, that’s what love feels like – a warm feeling inside.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
“Your cooking sucks” – before I learned to cook in Covid.
My mum. I was horrendous growing up – I was always arguing with her.
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