desk job

noun

: a job that someone does while sitting at a desk

She left her desk job to become a farmer.

Examples of desk job in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Employers across tech and corporate sectors are slowing entry-level hiring, and a lot of young people who would have defaulted to a desk job are taking a second look at the trades. — Brad Strawbridge, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

At that point, the railroad proposed promoting Plowden to a desk job, which did not interest him at all. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2026

And worse still, more often than not, many trade jobs might not actually make Gen Z happier than a desk job. — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026

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. — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2026

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