In an interview with Papermag, Dorian said:

“‘Career Boy’ is about the addiction to work that our modern society forces us to have in order to succeed. It’s about someone who learns to love the pain of the endless grind and who gets off to working overtime for ‘the man,’ despite the long hours and loneliness.

I wanted to subvert and poke fun at this masculine ideal of the manly-businessman-hero and tear him apart and also make him very queer. I identify as gender fluid and it feels really liberating to be able to put out a pop song referring to myself as ‘boy.’"