TT UTG 9 handed final table of tournament - right basic strategy

[pwnosaurus]

Hi,
Recently played a tournament (a home game) and had this hand come up.

Blinds are 500/1000. I have 8000 in chips and I'm the short stack at the table. I look at TT under the gun? Easy push? I was thinking about this later and was wondering what the right strategy for this hand is.

5 places pay and we were down to 9 players. Please let me know if any additional information is needed. I'm mostly a cash game player and might have missed out some important variables / parameters in describing the situation.