desk job


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desk job

n.
A job, especially one in the armed forces or a police department, in which one's work is done mainly while sitting at a desk.
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Either way, the Chicago area broadcaster has traded his work behind a microphone for a desk job as content developer for the city of Elgin.
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By LOUISE COOPER louise.cooper@trinitymirror.com @reporterlou IF your desk job isn't working for you and you long to be out on the road, why not apply to become a bus driver?
This is quite helpful if you have a desk job where you end up sitting for extended periods of time.
Always carry a water bottle, and if you have desk job, always keep one at your desk.
Bahraini Abdulrahman Salah Al Khan, who traded in his desk job with a leading financial institute to set up the popular Pet Arabia enterprise, has joined the GulfWeekly team as a guest columnist.
ROYALS New role for Prince Harry PRINCE Harry has taken on new responsibilities in his Army desk job, supporting wounded servicemen and women.
Professionally mounted, yet too impersonal to travel much beyond Gaul, the pic serves as the vaguely Bourne-esque backstory for a highly coveted marksman whose topnotch skills put him at the center of a convoluted plot to ensure that his lethal potential isn't squandered on a dead-end desk job.
Now I read that he's reinstated (albeit a desk job) with no repercussion whatsoever.