How to Use desk job in a Sentence

desk job

noun
  • Working a desk job doesn’t have to mean sitting still all day long.
    — Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Ashworth has a desk job, and wants to go and do another desk job.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Working a desk job is a reliable way to get your bag—but not so much your steps.
    — Alexis Berger, SELF, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Working a desk job is a reliable way to get your bag, but not so much your steps.
    — Renee Cherry, SELF, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The twin who worked in the field developed Alzheimer's, while the twin who worked the desk job did not.
    — AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
  • But new research shows that couldn’t be further from the truth—the youth of today just don’t want a desk job.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 4 Apr. 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
  • Five easy exercises for your head and neck to alleviate desk job aches and pains.
    — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Here’s how Anson went from burned out at a desk job to running a bagel shop with a local cult following.
    — Ashton Jackson lauren Shamo, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, Veronica was working a desk job for a rival insurance agent.
    — Mickey Rapkin, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
  • The guy tapped to replace him, seated at the next table, isn’t any happier to be given the desk job than Bucky was.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Sharma, instead of being celebrated as a hero, was transferred out of the district to a make-work desk job.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Consider this slip-on sneaker a safe pick for working a desk job, running errands around town, and relaxing at home.
    — Alena Hall, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Walking away from a stable 9-to-5 took a leap of faith, but for Brown, the perfect storm was brewing to leave her desk job.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The traditional 9-to-5 desk job is becoming a relic of the past.
    — David Ko, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • By that time the Outdoor Life Girl had seen too much adventure to return to a routine desk job.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Roger is now a dairy manager at Kroger after losing his plum desk job at AT&T.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 June 2025
  • 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, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Saban moved on to Ohio State and Frank took a desk job within the athletic department.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Adam Scott stars as Mark Scout, who works a desk job at a mysterious biotech company known as Lumon.
    — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 10 July 2024
  • Edgar-Jones will star in the project as a former storm chaser who, after surviving a disastrous tornado encounter, now works a desk job.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Success looks different for everyone Growing up, I was told the key to success is to go to college and land a well-paying desk job.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
  • She got moved to a desk job before McFadden fired her in November 2022.
    — Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Gemma, chafing at her new desk job, is only too happy to do some off-hours undercover work for Duncan’s team.
    — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • But the author, who started writing as a way to fulfill her creativity while working a desk job, prefers getting her hands dirty to looking at artifacts in museums.
    — Lizz Schumer, People.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Requiring capabilities that aren't needed, such as heavy lifting for a desk job, creates unnecessary barriers.
    — Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

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