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.
I did want to be an actor from an early age although I briefly dabbled with the idea of being a vet until I realised you had to stick your hand up a cow’s arse.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2017 source ↗
A professional footballer.
Jobs that I saw on television, until I realised they were all played by actors – then I wanted to be an actor.
My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
I always wanted to be a singer.
Hollywood Boulevard, it’s grubby, sticky and somehow terribly sad.
Malala Yousafzai; she’s a wonderful humanitarian.
That my son is kind and he loves David Bowie.
To anyone who gets into my car, because it’s such a mess.
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