MA
Still being here, aged 60. If I thought I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗
The question
What do you consider your greatest achievement?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Others on this question
View all 206 →
Joe Wicks
British fitness coach, television presenter and author
My PE With Joe work, over the last weeks.
Nicholson Baker
Contemporary American novelist and writer
In 1999, the British Library auctioned off some of its newspaper holdings. My wife and I formed a non-profit and saved more than 20 tons of these irreplaceable bound newspapers, including the last intact run of Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World.
James Norton
English actor
Finding something that I love doing and getting paid for it.
Rose Ayling-Ellis
British actress
That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.
More from Marc Almond
View profile →The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.
In my first bedsit when I went to art college in Leeds. It was a hideous basement, but I loved the freedom.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
In the school holidays, I worked at a soft drinks factory in Southport.
Rolf Harris – he let us all down.
A black Mercedes 500 coupé in the mid-1980s. I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d seen. (I had been clubbing the night before.) And I can’t drive.
More on craft & work
- What is the worst job you have done? 249 answers
- How does a new work begin for you? 86 answers
- What do you do when you feel creatively blocked or stuck? 82 answers
- How do you know when a piece of work is finished? 76 answers
- How much rewriting or revision do you do? 60 answers
- What is the part of your job that people would be surprised is most of your job? 57 answers
Also answered this
John Simm, Kevin Rowland, Shirley Manson, Chaka Khan, Michael Ball, Cerys Matthews
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All craft & work questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject