What did you want to be when you were growing up?

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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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jeremy Deller said elsewhere, not written here
More successful with girls.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2020 source ↗

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Aaron Ciechanover Biologist and physician; Nobel laureate in chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
I wanted to be a physician. And I am a physician, so I fulfilled that dream. I did not know anything about science. I did not know what one was supposed to do in science. I wanted to be a doctor, and I became indeed a doctor.
Recorded Stefano Sandrone, Interview, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, 17 December 2014 source ↗
Gregg Wallace English broadcaster and writer
A sailor. I wanted to be in the Royal Navy like my grandad.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗
Ivan Lendl Czech and American tennis player
I always wanted to play tennis. Otherwise, I always thought it would be fun to do something in mathematics or physics.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2017 source ↗

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