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

The question

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.

Mo Farah

British track and field athlete

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

A mechanic when I was a little kid, and then, when I came to the UK, I wanted to play professional football.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

Nick Grimshaw English television and radio presenter

Genuinely, the host of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2017 source ↗

I haven’t grown up.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗

Joss Stone English singer, songwriter, and actress

A veterinarian, but I decided against it because it required too many years of schooling; I wasn’t great at school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 April 2021 source ↗

Nish Kumar British stand-up comedian and presenter

Something in comedy. It was either this or Jimi Hendrix.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2019 source ↗