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.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2009 source ↗
A temp job at BT. I still have nightmares about ADSL lines. I still don’t know what one is. I would find myself on national conference calls being questioned about ADSL lines and told that the problem was in London. I would try not to breathe so they would forget I was there.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Telesales – having to sell terrible kitchens. I thought, maybe I’m not a good actor because I can’t even convince myself that these kitchens are worth paying for.
I used to do silver service waitressing at parties and events. The job was great, but there was constant harassment and groping from older men, and I hadn’t found my voice yet. It’s terrifying when you are young and you need a job.
I’m prone to overexplaining things –- when my own understanding of them is shaky. The better I know something, the shorter my prose.
Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.
Machismo.
Fear, anxiety, longing, love, art, beauty.
I'd take a course in bread-making and open a small bakery.
It’s very gratifying to grow utterly incensed by the Mail Online and come away from it full of fury and absolute outrage at its prejudice and xenophobia — and support for Brexit.
Margaret Atwood, Judith Kerr, Sandi Toksvig, Jack Whitehall, Adam Kay, Alan Cumming
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