He was getting rather soft with good living and a desk job.

You can work a desk job 30 years without getting that kind of satisfaction.

He released a report saying 51 percent of the force had desk jobs.

But she was kept at a desk job ever since 1990.

Young people have gone away to college and taken desk jobs.

The job market could never have enough desk jobs to make up for this simple fact of life.

That's not exactly a desk job, but it's certainly a sit down one.

Or he could get a desk job in the Pentagon - what fun!

It was definitely not the desk jobs her parents had.

Or he was going to be put out to pasture at a desk job.

Three days later, she was taken from her $6.40-an-hour office job and given a $5.55-an-hour position on the line.

This answer would be better for an office job where not many people will see your desk.

But there are too many officers in back office jobs.

Everything went well until Kay left school and got an office job in town.

Any office job would do, just so the hours were regular.

I think that's true if you're playing basketball or in an office job.

For the next two years she did "various office jobs to get by".

Come to think of it, why did I give up my office job?

She went to work at a mill in town and worked her way up to an office job.

After high school, she took an office job in the city.

Didn't seem to take to office work at all, as a matter of fact.

However, a small minority of the female population worked in domestic services or office work.

The story took a long time in the telling and the office work got badly behind that day.

If it needs 500 computers for general office work, speed might well be less important than cost.

Of course, I still need to catch up on that necessary office work, maybe tomorrow.

Light office work can be taken up within a week.

Adam looked up from the office work he had spread out on the table.

Skills from the office work just fine at home, if only we would remember to use them.

She is a home attendant but would like to do office work.

That could be because they are not practical for office work.

But I was supposed to do some of the clerical work.

What remained now seemed to him to be clerical work.

Only one-third of the women in her study who did clerical work at home used other people to help care for their children.

Young men who take clerical work as the first step in a management career can be considered middle class.

It doesn't mean women can only do clerical work, of course.

He's just one of the crowd, a guy doing the clerical work.

His wife, Christina, does help him out part time by doing clerical work.

They were the only employees by the end (except David's wife who did clerical work for £70 per month).

I did clerical work for them and some reading, too.

It was too much clerical work for one man to keep up.

Also, white-collar jobs were a smaller part of our economy then.

The same cannot be said at Ford, which expects to cut 2,000 more white-collar jobs on top of yesterday's 1,180.

Many now have white-collar jobs and are involved in politics.

Many of these people are so young that they have known nothing but well-paid, white-collar jobs.

The middle class grew and the majority of America's labor force held white-collar jobs.

"But a lot of the people who sit around all day in white-collar jobs doing I don't know what, they're another story."

My new white-collar job required a car and crazy hours; there was little overtime pay.

A white kid these days goes to college and gets into a white-collar job.

Chrysler said it might have to eliminate 3,000 of its 27,000 white-collar jobs, or about 11 percent.

Ford has said it will eliminate nearly 7,000, or about 20 percent, of its white-collar jobs.

They were finished by five o'clock, but there was still the desk work to get through.

With my gun hand gone they could only offer me desk work.

Not like with desk work where it really doesn't matter.

Apply this same technique any time a distraction pulls you away from your desk work.

Supposed to be getting through all this damned desk work.

But - How long do you think this desk work will take you?

Her role within SD-6 was desk work, at first, but she advanced quickly.

We killed three times, Apart from that, only the usual complaint; too much desk work.

A person can usually read, use a computer, or do other types of desk work while sitting in front of the light.