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 Jim Kerr said elsewhere, not written here
In the Beatles.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 October 2022 source ↗

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Alison Moyet English singer
For a while I wanted to be a policewoman, but I didn’t have five O-levels.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 June 2017 source ↗

James Dyson British inventor and businessman
I had no idea whatsoever, and nor did anyone else. I thought I’d go to art school and see whether I liked it – and of course I did, and stayed.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 December 2021 source ↗

Marie Kondo Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host
Housewife and mother of three, which I am now.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 January 2022 source ↗

Richard Coles British musician, writer, presenter and priest
A great composer. I wrote to Benjamin Britten to tell him this and that he was my third favourite composer. For some reason he didn’t feel moved to reply.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 June 2023 source ↗

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