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.

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Recorded David Hare said elsewhere, not written here
Because I loved it when I was young.

Jasper Rees, Q&A, The Arts Desk, 10 October 2009 source ↗

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Lucy Lawless
A criminal pathologist. Then I saw a show called Quincy ME and realised I just wanted to play one on TV.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2025 source ↗
Hiroshi Mikitani Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten
My job hunting days were at the height of the bubble economy. At the time, I was focused on joining big corporations and had no intention of myself becoming an entrepreneur. I started working at a major bank with a vague idea that I wanted "a job that would take me around the world."
Recorded Rakuten Group, Inc. source ↗

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