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Alexander Velky
32 minutes ago24 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 12: “Tell me about a time you had to manage conflicting priorities.”
By the time I returned to The UK from The Former Communist Country in July 2005, everything and nothing had changed...
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Alexander Velky
Jan 3042 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 11: “Tell me about a time you had to learn something quickly.”
The night before I flew out to The City of a Hundred Spires in The Former Communist Country I went to stay with my oldest brother...
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Alexander Velky
Jan 1710 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 10: “What’s your greatest strength?”
Toward the end of my English degree I’d been having conversations with my mother and Girlfriend # 2...
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Alexander Velky
Dec 28, 202429 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 9: “Tell me about a time you surpassed people’s expectations.”
My time at The University in The City of Crushed Dreams would loom large in my mind for many years after I’d left...
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Alexander Velky
Dec 11, 202412 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 8: “Tell me about a time you had to handle pressure.”
My part-time Halls Catering Job in The City of Crushed Dreams was all that stood between me and Financial Ruin...
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Alexander Velky
Nov 28, 202410 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 7: “Tell me about a time you failed.”
My A-level results were a big let-down. Not quite Disastrous or Shameful; but significantly below what I was hoping for...
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Alexander Velky
Nov 28, 202415 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 6: “What are your salary expectations?”
[ Previous chapter ] [The Corner Shop: Autumn 2000–Summer 2001 (Three evenings per week)] Toward the end of the first year of my...
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Alexander Velky
Oct 24, 202415 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 5: “What would your co-workers say about you?”
My mother said I should get a Saturday Job, since The Garden Centre Job had come to nothing, and I’d sacked off my second paper round...
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Alexander Velky
Oct 24, 20244 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 4: "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"
I don’t remember what (if anything) I was predicted to get for my GCSEs.
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Alexander Velky
Oct 21, 202411 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 3: “Tell me what’s important to you in a job.”
I should at this juncture mention The Posh School–mandated two weeks I spent in The Photography Shop in The Cathedral City...
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Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 20242 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story
Between January 2022 and March 2023 I wrote a sort of memoir entitled "Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story". I had long had the idea...
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Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 20246 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 2: “Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
My mother thought I was old enough by this point to get a regular weekend Job. And I wanted money for two reasons...
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Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 202414 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 1: “Tell me about something you accomplished that you're proud of.”
I got my first regular Job at the age of 14 because we’d moved from North Wales to The Hog County in the South of England...
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Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 202413 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 0: “So, tell me about yourself...”
I was born in The City of a Thousand Trades, in the West Midlands of England, on St John’s Day 1983...
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Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 20248 min read
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Prologue
I’m nearly forty, and I think I’m in the first stages of an early-onset Midlife Crisis—if not a full-blown bout of Existential Dread...
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Alexander Velky
Jun 21, 20241 min read
[Idle] Threatening cuts
I thought I'd better post a brief update on progress toward publication of the new book...
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Alexander Velky
Jun 14, 20245 min read
The life of St Dogmael
“St Dogmael” lived about 1500 years ago; he came from a royal family in what is now West Wales; and he chose to dedicate his life to God.
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Alexander Velky
May 31, 20242 min read
"Threatening cuts" promotional video released
The promotional interview video for the forthcoming Doubtist Books poetry book "Threatening cuts" by Alexander Velky has now been published.
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Alexander Velky
May 13, 20241 min read
Doubtist Books - Poetry - Project Gilgamesh
Today the last to be allowed to die / Will say her words and give the nurse the nod...
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Alexander Velky
May 13, 20243 min read
Doubtist Books - Poetry - The horror
We two were born, entwined like vines, to share dull destiny...
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