Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's long-running Q&A repeatedly asks this standing question, with minor tense variation.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
I worked at KFC, as a vegetarian, doing Friday and Saturday nights.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2024 source ↗
Six weeks in my dad’s office doing admin was enough to persuade me to pursue a career in sport.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 July 2017 source ↗
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
Selling double glazing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2016 source ↗
In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
I behaved badly with two old lovers. Years later, when I took one to lunch to apologise, it made it worse.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
Dr Denis Mukwege, because he is to sexualised violence against females what Mandela was to apartheid.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗
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