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

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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.

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Shinya Yamanaka Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
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
Recorded Academy of Achievement interviewer, Academy of Achievement interview, 2008 source ↗
Roger Allam English actor
When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 June 2017 source ↗
Harriet Walter English actress
An actor. When I was really young, I wanted to be a fishmonger’s wife.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2017 source ↗

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Question What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore? Time & hindsight
Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
Recorded University Post, University of Copenhagen public talk, University Post (uniavisen.dk), University of Copenhagen source ↗

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