The 9 to 5 (n.) is a schedule that owns your daylight and rents your evenings.
The 9 to 5 (n.) takes the middle of the day, which is the piece with the light in it.
The 9 to 5 (n.) sells a person's best hours wholesale and rents the rest back at retail.
The 9 to 5 (n.) ends at five for the people who describe it and at seven for the people who live it.
An Assignment (n.) is how one person's deadline becomes another person's weekend.
An Assignment (n.) is another person's decision about how your Tuesday goes.
An Assignment (n.) is a problem set by someone who already knows the answer.
An Assignment (n.) is work whose real product is evidence that the work was done.
A Career (n.) rewards being present far more reliably than being right.
A Career (n.) takes decades to build and one sentence at a party to summarize.
A Career (n.) is mostly explained backwards, as though it had been a plan.
A Career (n.) is a job that has gone too long.