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
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But new research shows that couldn’t be further from the truth—the youth of today just don’t want a desk job.
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
Written and directed by Ryan Martin Brown, the film stars Colin Burgess as a Brooklyn twentysomething who impulsively quits his desk job.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Britain’s leading scientific institution, the Royal Society, granted him its highest honor, the Copley Medal, and the Navy rewarded him with a cushy desk job.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
By book two, The Likeness, he’s been assigned a desk job for breach of duty; instead, his partner, Cassie Maddox, is sent undercover to learn who killed a young girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to her.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Ashworth has a desk job, and wants to go and do another desk job.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
People who have a desk job can leave sneakers by their desk as a reminder to go for a daily walk.
—Crystal Run Healthcare, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
Propst understood the serious health problems that a sedentary desk job could induce and worked to add movement and flow to the office.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2023
Unlike a traditional desk job, the role entails representing the City at local, state, and national events and gaining public support for departmental programs.
—Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
Written and directed by Ryan Martin Brown, the film stars Colin Burgess as a Brooklyn twentysomething who impulsively quits his desk job.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
Britain’s leading scientific institution, the Royal Society, granted him its highest honor, the Copley Medal, and the Navy rewarded him with a cushy desk job.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
By book two, The Likeness, he’s been assigned a desk job for breach of duty; instead, his partner, Cassie Maddox, is sent undercover to learn who killed a young girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to her.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
Ashworth has a desk job, and wants to go and do another desk job.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
People who have a desk job can leave sneakers by their desk as a reminder to go for a daily walk.
—Crystal Run Healthcare, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
Propst understood the serious health problems that a sedentary desk job could induce and worked to add movement and flow to the office.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2023
Unlike a traditional desk job, the role entails representing the City at local, state, and national events and gaining public support for departmental programs.
—Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
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