Marie Kondo: As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?

The question

Originally asked

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.

Marie Kondo

Japanese organizing consultant, author, and television show host

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Housewife and mother of three, which I am now.

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

Others on this question

Pauline McLynn Irish character actress and author

A hairdresser – I still want to be a hairdresser.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 July 2023 source ↗

Patricia Hodge English actress

A ballet dancer, but it changed to being an actress when I got put in a school play.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 September 2018 source ↗

Julian Lloyd Webber British cellist and conductor

A detective, a train driver on the underground and Leyton Orient’s centre forward.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2023 source ↗

Emeli Sandé British singer

I always wanted to be a singer, but I also wanted to be a doctor. I almost got there: I did four years and got my neuroscience BSc.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 January 2017 source ↗