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 radio journalist or on the till at Marks & Spencer.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 August 2025 source ↗
A magazine editor.
A baseball pitcher.
In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
Kind, loyal and (slightly) mad.
It’s already happened – HRT.
I constantly forget people’s names when they have literally just told me.
Always sleep on any decision.
Cold call market research at uni.
When I was 17 I didn’t visit my gran for six weeks as I was out partying. At the end of that summer she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I never saw the real her again. I would love to say sorry to her as I loved her so much.
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