Mary McCartney: As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?

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.

Mary McCartney

English photographer and cookbook author

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

A nurse, because my grandmother was a midwife. I was named after her but never got to meet her.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 197 →

Rick Astley Singer, songwriter and radio presenter

When I was about 14 and got my first drum kit, I wanted to be a drummer in a band like the Police.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 October 2018 source ↗

Mellody Hobson Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments

And all the while I was growing up, of course, there were just constant conversations about money and money being tight and how are we going to make ends meet and sometimes not having enough money. And it really just made me committed to living a life with much more financial security.

Recorded Farai Chideya, News & Notes, Leading Ladies series, NPR, 22 March 2007 source ↗

Jenna Coleman English actress