desk job
noun
: a job that someone does while sitting at a desk
She left her desk job to become a farmer.
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The rousing trailer finds Prince Adam bored to death hiding out at a generic corporate desk job on Earth when his precious sword is discovered, which sends him on a wild odyssey back to the land of Eternia and its talking tigers, spaceships, gothic castles, and magic swords.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Saban moved on to Ohio State and Frank took a desk job within the athletic department.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
And that ultimately, going from a desk job to becoming a plumber, teacher, or nurse, van ’t Noordende says, requires a mindset shift.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
Now part-mullet, part-shag, her look was punk, brunette, a little unhinged, and entirely untameable—the kind of haircut that could never be neatly tied up in a bouncy ponytail or piled into an evening updo; the kind of haircut that would never earn you a desk job.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026
Saban moved on to Ohio State and Frank took a desk job within the athletic department.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
And that ultimately, going from a desk job to becoming a plumber, teacher, or nurse, van ’t Noordende says, requires a mindset shift.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2026
Now part-mullet, part-shag, her look was punk, brunette, a little unhinged, and entirely untameable—the kind of haircut that could never be neatly tied up in a bouncy ponytail or piled into an evening updo; the kind of haircut that would never earn you a desk job.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2025
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“Desk job.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/desk%20job. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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