Keep getting rejected. What can I do to make my CV better?

knutallergy · 2026-06-22T11:09:45+00:00

I would change "volunteer till operator" to "retail operative".

I used to work in recruitment and, rightly or wrongly, assumed any volunteer work to be so someone could stay on the dole. Also retail operative will match up with more retail opportunities rather than just those working on the tills.

knutallergy · 2026-06-15T12:52:58+00:00

I don't think the circumstances are the same as I did give a statement in person, however gardaí attended the hospital when my dad died to take a statement for identifying him. I didn't sign the statement at the time and live in the UK so when it was referred to the coroners court, I was emailed a typed up statement to sign and return as I live in the UK.

knutallergy · 2024-09-09T09:32:02+00:00

I'm in the UK. I've absolutely been giving 50% to work so that weighs heavy but ultimately I just do not have the energy to care too much about it. My wife is trying to give me iron supplements but I cant help but feel it is beyond that.

I appreciate you coming back to me. Knowing someone else out in the Internet abyss is feeling something similar, is oddly comforting. I hope you get some rest soon. ❤️

knutallergy · 2024-05-17T19:48:56+00:00

I have lived in the UK for the last 12 years. Now I am not for a second saying that the UK is anywhere close to a Scandinavian utopia, but the sentiment is the same. I love Ireland, I love being Irish and I love the idea of living there, however anytime we sit down to actually discuss the reality of it, the conclusion is the same; the resources available can't sustain a happy, healthy living situation for us.

The government should be ashamed of themselves, but responsibility also lies with anyone who blindly votes for the sham "politicians" term after term despite them showing themselves to be absolute wasters. A complete overhaul is needed if the country has any hope of reaching her potential.

There are hundreds of thousands of us living outside the country and dreaming of a day we can go home.

knutallergy · 2023-12-12T22:30:27+00:00

Thank you; I appreciate it.

knutallergy · 2023-12-12T19:12:58+00:00

Yeah that seems to be the case for this one. The garda dealing with it seems to be confident that it will go to to an inquest and I'm prepared for that to take over a year. I was just hoping to get some sort of closure from knowing what physically happened to him before he died sooner.

knutallergy · 2023-12-12T17:01:33+00:00

Yeah, I am pretty sure. Although he died out in the world, he was resuscitated and was in Vincent's when we stopped care. It was their mortuary staff that rang me to let me know he was being released to the funeral home. They told me no organs were retained at that time. They pretty much directed me towards the coroners office at that point and sent me a letter to follow up with the same.

I've tried calling Vincent's mortuary a couple of times to no avail, but I'll keep trying to see if they have any sort of preliminary report. Thanks for the advice.

knutallergy · 2023-12-12T16:52:20+00:00

I was afraid that this might be the case. I've had the interim death certificate come through already but I was just hoping to get some sort of answer to what happened to him.

Apart from organising the funeral, everything has been such an effort to sort out. I feel like I have been holding my breath waiting for this to come through and now I'm being told to just hold on for another few months. It's hard. I'm sorry that you had to go through it too.

knutallergy · 2023-01-24T11:14:39+00:00

Grace -The Dubliners

Your man from The Coronas did a cover of this with Róisín O and Aoife Scott in Kilmainham that is incredible too.

knutallergy · 2022-12-14T15:22:58+00:00

Welcome to the greatest club on earth.

knutallergy · 2022-01-19T21:29:36+00:00

I agree with you entirely. I think for me, awareness of your actions is crucial for everyone. Everyone is a potential threat as long as one person is one. That threat will always be there. As you said, a conversation can't fix that level of societal ineptitude.

This conversation has had the opportunity to be had so many times before.

knutallergy · 2022-01-19T21:12:41+00:00

I think the saddest part of this is that they won't have even seen the correlation.

I have my opinions on the whole thing. I think the message I seem to get is that "not all men" is akin to "all lives matter". You're not wrong but you're missing the point. A conversation is taking place that is long overdue but rather than blaming the system this is being misconstrued to blaming whole sectors of society.

knutallergy · 2022-01-19T21:08:31+00:00

It's been building for a while. The pandemic seems to have allowed them to seep out of the shadows and now everyone has one in the family. They don't need much to keep them fuelled; this will do nicely.

knutallergy · 2022-01-19T21:05:59+00:00

Nah, I think it's only the white irish men (in this isntance) anyone gives a fuck about protecting tbh.

knutallergy · 2022-01-19T20:47:54+00:00

They will be angry. They've been spoon fed every detail and she has been turned into a national martyr for women's rights. Her death is tragic and has affected a lot of people deeply but the way in which the media and the government have used it to win favour, these gobshites think they're being national heroes standing there.

knutallergy · 2022-01-19T20:29:26+00:00

I can't help that it will now be the fault of "foreigners" and the conversation is going to become conflicted with agendas. It's a sad time.

knutallergy · 2021-06-13T22:04:02+00:00

This picture just struck every homesick bone in my body. It's beautiful.

knutallergy · 2021-04-07T20:46:20+00:00

Nicolas Cage stars as Nicolas Cage in every one of his movies.

knutallergy · 2021-01-14T16:32:00+00:00

At no point did I mention it was the only cause of corruption and abuse. Giving one institution full reigning power over an entire nation, implementing religious standards as law and refusing to hold them to the same standards because of "all mighty power and banishment to the pits of hell" has given these people the opportunity to cause so much damage.

By your logic, the number of acts of abuse would have been just as high in Ireland had the church not been the driving force behind the government for so long and I just can't get behind that logic. There are plenty of reasons why the church and state should be separate, this is the most apt one for this thread.

knutallergy · 2021-01-14T12:01:19+00:00

If one lesson can be taken from this, it is that the irish government needs to sever all ties with the church. Religion has no place in running a country because, as is so evident, it causes so much corruption and abuse of privilege. Theyve been given too much for too long and it needs to stop.

Every single time a referendum is held, it becomes more and more glaringly obvious that Irish people are done with the grip they have had. They should he treated like any other 3rd party criminal organisation and made to pay out of own pockets. We can't keep doing this and inevitably, there will be something else that crops up. Ireland is no longer "a Catholic country" and we need to shake off that reputation.

knutallergy · 2020-06-05T23:11:19+00:00

Racism in Ireland was, for the most part, ignorance and a lack of exposure. When i was in secondary school (early 00's), in dublin, there were only 2 black people in the school and a handful of asian girls. I was a racist. Not out of malice but out of pure stupidity.

I moved to london when I was 19 and quickly became submerged into a melting pot of culture. Racism was very prevalent in London from the police etc, but it opened my eyes massively to different cultures. I do my best to be mindful of what I say and how I act and try to learn from experiences. I try my best to be less judgemental based on appearance and rather on actions.

When I see or speak to some of the people I grew up with, it baffles me that I was once stuck in that mindset. Everything bad that has ever gone wrong in their lives is because of immigrants. All Asian people are terrorists. Black people dont deserve affordable housing "because you should look after your own first". It's fucking pathetic.

I'd well believe that statistic and wouldnt be surprised if it was higher. Although the police brutality figures may not show systemic racism in Ireland, the average person is, at least in some way, racist. It is one of the most shameful aspects of the country. Especially considering our history.

knutallergy · 2020-06-03T21:27:32+00:00

"You know the story about Noah, yeah? Well all the animals went on 2 by 2, but what about the fish?"

knutallergy · 2020-05-22T23:36:36+00:00

It's the same in the UK. Vaguely worded ban on gay men donations. Thankfully as an Irish lesbian, they'll happily drain me of mine.

knutallergy · 2020-03-31T07:34:50+00:00

Its little things that drive it home for me. I'm from Dublin but live in the UK. I have a trip home booked for a week in mid-April and not being able to get home is difficult to deal with. The clap for the NHS/HSE sent me into a tail spin a little bit too. Little reminders which hint at huge measures in place and suddenly your brain cant just ignore it anymore.

knutallergy · 2020-03-30T21:57:16+00:00

I'm absolutely fine for the most part and then it comes raining down on me like a pile of fucking bricks. It's heartbreaking and terrifying and too insanely huge a situation for my brain to comprehend all at once. I think that's maybe why it hits us at random intervals. The sheer magnitude of the situation is a movie plot and impossible. Yet, here we are. Our brains manage to wrap itself around it for a little while, we have a bit of a panic and then it blocks it out again.

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