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 drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
A veterinarian, but I decided against it because it required too many years of schooling; I wasn’t great at school.
Before I knew what being an actor was, I wanted to be one.
What I am now, but with a better singing voice.
I was born in Osaka, Japan. It was 45 years ago. My father has a small factory in Osaka, and we lived next to his factory
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
When I changed the toner cartridge in my printer all on my own – that was a day of pure euphoria.
As someone who made people laugh, introduced them to good music and wasn’t too much of a pain in the arse.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
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