On a slight tangent, 9-5 first shift work is also kind of a boomer thing that's going away. I'm an old X-er and I've never, in my entire life, had a 9-5 job.

On a slight tangent, 9-5 first shift work is also kind of a boomer thing that's going away. I'm an old X-er and I've never, in my entire life, had a 9-5 job. Always "as needed" type stuff aka overtime or weird flex time. I've never had a job where I can roll into the office at 9 and left at 5. By my own choice I do four tens now, and as long as the market permits I'll never work five eights ever again. 9-5 means "real job" and since only boomers get the real jobs, do the math there. I started out in financial services and per our change management if the building wasn't on fire I wasn't allowed to touch anything until 5pm on trading days, so I wouldn't even show up at the office until at least 4pm and if things went bad overnight I could certainly use a drink around 3am... I suspect this kind of work-life balance is not unusual here on HN.