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 forensic scientist.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
Wimbledon champion. I won the title frequently when playing against a pebbledash wall at home in Ireland.
A baseball pitcher.
An elevator operator.
My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.
To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.
Warm, intelligent, accommodating.
A few weeks ago, walking on the beach in Anglesey with my dogs and my husband.
About five years ago, I was in a play that was an unmitigated disaster. I had to rally the troops and go out every night.
At my mother’s funeral last year.
Recently, sending a negative text about a person to that person.
Daphne Guinness, Salman Rushdie, Serena Williams, James Blunt, Gloria Steinem, Victoria Pendleton
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