As I’ve matured, I’ve come to realize the role sex plays in anchoring the banal behaviors that shape everyday existence for adults in some iteration: whether a rockstar, scholar, or nine-to-fiver, most daily routines include working for some time and being home for sometime.

A young woman slid out the passenger side and strode up to a man still dressed in the sharp gray suit of a Washington nine-to-fiver waiting outside the center’s tony apartment building.

Besides, regardless of their number of years in the industry, the average corporate nine-to-fiver may not realize the energy it takes to weather the start-up storm.

Up until summer 2009, Ami Kassar was a nine-to-fiver, working for Advanta, one of the largest providers of credit cards to small business.

In prouder times, no self-respecting nine-to-fiver would have clamored to get into an exhibition game after being taken for granted during a six-month labor scrum between billionaire owners and millionaire slam-dunk artists.