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.
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A forensic scientist.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
An ambulance driver.
I wanted to play for Tottenham.
I told my mum I wanted to be a swan.
I didn’t want to be anything because I don’t look ahead. Even as a kid I thought it was pointless.
My younger self, because I was very, very tough on myself.
I’ve never got through Ulysses.
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.
Pain and loneliness.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Procrastination.
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