In Mormon missionary culture, they use the word "trunky" to describe the feeling at the end of their two-year mission when they are tired, ready to go home, and are mentally packing their trunks to go home. They have mentally checked out from their mission at hand.
I'm looking for a commonly used word or phrase that means generally the same thing as "trunky".
In the US Military one common term was FIGMO, politely it meant "Forget It, Got My Orders", I'll leave it to you & Google to figure out what it really meant. Another term was "DEROS" meaning Date Eligible for Return from Overseas, the date when you'd leave to go home. It's worth a Google as well if for nothing else the trench art. You'll find that there'll be a count of days "and a wake up" with some very um..colorful calendars, but I digress.
A term I've heard in the Pacific Northwest is "dundy" (done-dee?) not sure of the spelling, I've never seen it in print. It means you're done, finished, ready to go home, usually in a "I'm sick & tired of this" connotation. In Hawaii, you'll hear "All pau now" or "pau hana" which generally means "we're done doing whatever it was we were doing, let's go home/ get a drink".
In Malay, you will hear: "sudah?" as in "done already?". And in Hainanese you might hear: "ho mei?" which is nearly identical in meaning to "sudah" at least to this gwai-lo's ear (my wife is Malaysian & ethnically Chinese).
I've heard "cashed," "fried," "spent," "running on empty" or simply "done" in that context.
The phrase from military life short-timer has come into common parlance. Sometimes, it is linked to attitude, as short-timer's attitude. The idea is of someone who is near the end of an assignment and is at least mentally already shifting into whatever will come next.
short-timer Use Short-timer in a sentence
short-tim·er [shawrt-tahy-mer] Show IPA
noun Informal. a person, as a soldier, who has a short period of time left to serve on a tour of duty.
