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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".
Characters such as Léon are anti-heroes:
a central character in a story, film, or drama who lacks conventional heroic attributes:
with the age of the anti-hero, baddies and goodies became less distinguishable from one another
TVTropes' entry for antihero reads:
An Archetypal Character who is almost as common in modern fiction as the Ideal Hero, an antihero is a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attributes of a hero. (S)he may be bewildered, ineffectual, deluded, or merely apathetic. More often an antihero is just an amoral misfit. While heroes are typically conventional, anti-heroes, depending on the circumstances, may be preconventional (in a "good" society), postconventional (if the government is "evil") or even unconventional. Not to be confused with Big Bad, who is the opponent of Heroes (or Anti-Heroes, in that matter).
A related term often used synonymously is Byronic hero (Wikipedia):
The Byronic Hero is a type of character (an Anti-Hero, an Anti-Villain, or Just a Villain) popularized by the works of Lord Byron, whose protagonists often embodied this archetype, though they existed before him*. Byronic Heroes are charismatic characters with strong passions and ideals, but who are nonetheless deeply flawed individuals who may act in ways which are socially reprehensible, and whose internal conflicts are heavily romanticized.
Léon is one of the characters mentioned on Wikipedia's list of fictional antiheroes.
The crooked DEA agent would perhaps then be an anti-villain. Both of them are flawed characters (just like Lance Armstrong).
Consider teleworker:
someone who works from home, and communicates with their employer, customers etc using a computer, telephone etc.
(Longman)
EDIT: As the dictionary definition says, the means of communication with the employer are not limited to computers. Phone, beeper and other means are possible. A teleworker seamstress with no computer is therefore also possible. Maybe she uses her Android smartphone, or a landline, why not? From a job site called Telework Recruiting:
We are looking for an experienced seamstress to become part of our London team. Candidates must be able to work from home with their own equipment.
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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).