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 Björn Ulvaeus said elsewhere, not written here
Successful like my two uncles, who were paper industry magnates.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2020 source ↗

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Derek Sivers Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
14. I always played music until then, just like piano lessons. Viola, violin and clarinet as a kid. But at 14 I started playing guitar and I was like, “this is it. This is what I want”. I am so thankful that I had this single mission from the age of 14 till 29. For 15 years of my life I wanted nothing but to be a great musician.
Recorded Joe Ciccarone, podcast transcript, Built Not Born, 13 July 2022 source ↗

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