Curriculum Vitæ

Alexander Velky

6 days ago15 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

6 days ago4 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 2111 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

Sep 302 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 3014 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 3013 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 308 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...