The question

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.

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Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
I’d say, “I’m going to be a doctor.” I don’t know why I changed. I know my dad had something to do with it.
Recorded Interview, Cape Town, South Africa, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗
Mark Bonnar
First, I wanted to be a historian, then a drummer, and after that I just wanted to be employed. And I still do.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗

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Question What purchase of $100 or less has most positively impacted your life in the last six months? Money & investment
Yes. Well, one of them I’m holding in my hand right now. And my daughter turned me onto these. She’s now 28. Computer glasses, which I got on Amazon. I don’t know. They were less than $20. But these are yellow-tinted glasses that enlarge things slightly. That has totally changed my comfort in sitting in front of a screen.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 10 December 2018 source ↗

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