The question
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?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.
I wanted to be in the circus.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗
An actor or stuntman: I loved Lee Majors in The Fall Guy.
Jobs that I saw on television, until I realised they were all played by actors – then I wanted to be an actor.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
A vet, but then I discovered you needed qualifications.
Scruffy, infuriating and kind.
The worms get to feast.
Not feeling old but everyone treating you that way.
The first time I stood on top of the hill that I now live on, in 2007.
A brilliant hi-tech, low weight tent.
Panic and euphoria.
Björn Ulvaeus, Dan Stevens, Fay Ripley, Shinya Yamanaka, Martin Kemp, Charlotte Church
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