I was born in Patras, Greece, and moved to the United Kingdom in 2016.
For more than twenty-five years, I worked in hospitality.
If you’ve ever worked in the industry, you’ll know that hospitality is one of the best places to learn about people. It teaches patience, resilience, observation and, occasionally, how to remain polite while questioning reality.
Over the years I collected stories, conversations, frustrations, lessons and moments of unexpected humour. Some were ridiculous. Some were exhausting. Most were memorable.
When I eventually left hospitality and moved into Human Resources, I realised I wasn’t ready to leave those experiences behind. They had shaped how I see people, workplaces and human behaviour.
That’s why I wrote Ho-Spell-Tality.
It was my way of preserving a world that had been a huge part of my life while celebrating the people who work in it every day.
But hospitality was only part of the story.
What has always fascinated me is how people think, how they behave, what they say, what they don’t say, and the conversations they have with themselves when nobody else is listening.
That curiosity initiated the writing of my second book, Yeah! I said it!, a collection of observations, reflections and honest thoughts about work, anxiety, overthinking, relationships and modern life.
My writing sits somewhere between humour, sarcasm, observation and personal reflection. I enjoy exploring the everyday absurdities that most of us experience but rarely discuss openly.
The awkward conversations.
The workplace politics.
The overthinking at 2:47 a.m.
The version of ourselves we present to the world and the one that quietly comments on everything in the background.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re probably in the right place.
Today I live in the UK, work in Human Resources, and continue to write about people, workplaces and the strange business of being human.
I find humour in the everyday absurdities of work and life, and then overthink about them at 2:47 a.m.
Nikos N.