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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...
Alexander Velky
Jan 1710 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...
Alexander Velky
Dec 28, 202429 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...
Alexander Velky
Dec 11, 202412 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...
Alexander Velky
Nov 28, 202410 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...
Alexander Velky
Nov 28, 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...
Alexander Velky
Oct 24, 202415 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.
Alexander Velky
Oct 24, 20244 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...
Alexander Velky
Oct 21, 202411 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...
Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 20242 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...
Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 20246 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...
Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 202414 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...
Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 202413 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...
Alexander Velky
Sep 30, 20248 min read
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[Idle] Threatening cuts
I thought I'd better post a brief update on progress toward publication of the new book...
Alexander Velky
Jun 21, 20241 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.
Alexander Velky
Jun 14, 20245 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.
Alexander Velky
May 31, 20242 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...
Alexander Velky
May 13, 20241 min read


Doubtist Books - Poetry - The horror
We two were born, entwined like vines, to share dull destiny...
Alexander Velky
May 13, 20243 min read


Doubtist Books - Poetry - Threatening cuts
Through the bathroom mirror’s condensation / I’m sizing up my hair for harvest time...
Alexander Velky
May 13, 20241 min read


The national flags and symbols of Landskeria
Over the past six years many people have asked me about the flags and the symbols of Landskeria. About their meanings and origins.
Alexander Velky
Sep 27, 20215 min read
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