After two years, my teaching contracts ended, so I said hasta luego to my life on the Iberian Peninsula and moved back in with my parents to work a nine-to-five desk job in Washington DC, dealing with financial reviews, company deadlines, terrible co-workers and fax machines that never worked.

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She found that nearly all her subjects had been forced by competing claims of jobs and families to look for jobs at which they could work when they wanted to work, rather than be squeezed into some nine-to-five, one-size-fits-all organizational schedule.

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The other thing most of the least stressful jobs have in common: At the end of the day, people in these professions can leave their work behind, and their hours tend to be the traditional nine to five.

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When people hear how I quit my job as a lawyer after six years of corporate work, they assume I burned out and fled the nine-to-five (or, more accurately, the nine-to-midnight), leaving contracts, negotiations and lawsuits behind.

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The parliament's justice committee said inmates need more of a "nine-to-five" working routine to prepare them for work on their release.

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The 32-year-old did his best work early in his round, racing to the turn in 31 on a front nine that included five birdies.

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