short-timer
Nearly finished here
A short-timer is someone nearing the end of a fixed period of service or employment, especially in military contexts where it refers to a soldier close to completing their tour of duty or enlistment.
The term carries connotations of diminished investment or motivation, since short-timers often mentally check out before their actual departure date.
The short-timers were already planning their civilian lives.
In workplace settings, it describes any employee counting down their final days before retirement, resignation, or the end of a contract.
Intensely wanting something
- excitedEagerly anticipating something
- restlessUnable to be still
- antsyRestlessly eager or nervous
- impatientUnwilling to wait
ready · hopeful · anxious · yearning · freedom · relief · elation · giddy
Release of substance outward
- rotationTurning on an axis
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- tourPlanned multi-destination journey
- dutyRequired moral task
ETS · separation · demobilization · reenlistment · veteran · leave · calendar · wake-up
Date-tracking system
- daysTwenty-four-hour spans
- wake-upEmerge from sleep
- chainLinked segments forming length
- tickingRhythmic mechanical sound
marking · final · remaining · dwindling · deadline · homestretch · counting
Voluntary relinquishment of position
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- noticeBecome aware of
- departureAct of going away
- leavingAct of going away
turnover · handoff · transition · successor · replacement · farewell · send-off · goodbye
Not participating or invested
- coastingMoving without active effort
- unmotivatedLacking incentive or drive
- indifferentLacking interest or concern
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
detached · distracted · slacking · half-hearted · clock-watching · daydreaming · unfocused
eager
Intensely wanting something
impatient · ready · hopeful · anxious · yearning · freedom · relief · elation · giddy · expectant
discharge
Release of substance outward
- rotationTurning on an axis
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- tourPlanned multi-destination journey
duty · ETS · separation · demobilization · reenlistment · veteran · leave · calendar · wake-up · homecoming
calendar
Date-tracking system
ticking · marking · final · remaining · dwindling · deadline · homestretch · counting
resignation
Voluntary relinquishment of position
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- noticeBecome aware of
- departureAct of going away
leaving · turnover · handoff · transition · successor · replacement · farewell · send-off · goodbye · disengagement
disengaged
Not participating or invested
- coastingMoving without active effort
- unmotivatedLacking incentive or drive
- indifferentLacking interest or concern
apathetic · detached · distracted · slacking · half-hearted · clock-watching · daydreaming · unfocused
short-timerlifer
Prisoner without release
long-hauler · careerist · old-timer · veteran · tenured
short-timerlifer
Prisoner without release
full-timer · regular · entrenched · here to stay · committed
short-timerlifer
Prisoner without release
true believer · company man · die-hard · loyalist · dyed-in-the-wool
short, timer, time, shorter, shortest, shortly, shortness, shorten, shortened