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 Rose McGowan said elsewhere, not written here
A mortician – I worked in a funeral home when I was 14.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 December 2018 source ↗

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J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗

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