Victoria Nezh.
A book about work on human terms
The Book
Build a working life that still leaves room for you
How to Work Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Weekend) is a practical guide to
ambition, boundaries, pressure, and the work that follows you home.
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a central idea from the book
Burnout can look productive.
11 chapters · real situations · practical tools
What you´ll take from the book
01
Real situations from working life
Each chapter begins with a familiar moment from modern working life: unclear expectations, uncomfortable feedback, blurred boundaries, shifting priorities, or the feeling that you’re working hard but somehow still falling behind.
02
What’s really going on at work
Instead of treating each problem as a personal failure, we look at what may actually be happening underneath — the assumptions, habits, workplace dynamics, and invisible expectations shaping the situation.
03
How culture changes the way we work
Work doesn’t mean the same thing everywhere. Each topic considers how attitudes towards ambition, hierarchy, communication, boundaries, and success can change across countries, cultures, and international teams.
04
Questions to help you reflect
Short prompts help you connect the chapter to your own working life: what you’ve normalised, what keeps draining your energy, and which expectations may no longer belong to you.
05
Practical exercises for real workdays
Every chapter turns reflection into something concrete — a conversation to prepare for, a boundary to reconsider, a pattern to notice, or a small experiment to try in your real working environment.
06
Ideas you can adapt to your own life
There are no rigid rules or perfect morning routines here. You’ll leave each chapter with practical ideas you can adapt to your role, personality, culture, and stage of your career.
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Hi, I'm Victoria.
I’m a UX&UI Designer by profession, but design has always been more than a job to me. It’s how I make sense of the world — by noticing patterns, asking why things work the way they do, and imagining how they might work better.
Working across different cultures and teams showed me how differently people understand ambition, responsibility, leadership, boundaries, and professionalism. What feels completely normal in one workplace may be interpreted very differently in another.
Still, I kept seeing the same thing everywhere: thoughtful, capable people assuming they were the problem when the expectations around them were unclear, contradictory, or simply impossible to meet.
This book comes from years of watching how work changes people — and from my own search for better ways to live with it. I don't claim to have it figured out.
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COUNTRIES
Worked with cross-cultural teams and very different ideas of communication, ambition, and professionalism
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DIGITAL PRODUCTS
Designed across industries, from focused user experiences to complex systems and platforms
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ROLES
Hands-on design and people management
Who this book is for
You’ll probably like it if...
• You deal with changing priorities, unclear expectations, and a lot of figuring things out as you go
• You want practical ways to handle boundaries, feedback, pressure, and responsibility
• You work with people from different roles or cultures and know that the same situation can be understood very differently
• You prefer honest examples and useful questions to motivational advice
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Victoria Nezh.
Designer and author of
How to Work Without Losing Your Mind (or Your Weekend)
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