desk jockey
Sedentary office employee
A desk jockey is someone whose job keeps them seated at a desk, typically doing administrative or clerical work.
The term playfully borrows from occupations like disc jockey or fighter jockey, suggesting that pushing papers or clicking a mouse is their form of riding.
It often carries a mildly dismissive tone, implying sedentary work as opposed to physical labor or fieldwork.
After twenty years as a desk jockey, he finally got a job that let him work outdoors.
- pencil pusherDerogatory term for clerk
- office workerIndoor professional employee
- nine to fiveStandard workday timeframe
- cubiclePartitioned office workspace
- paperworkAdministrative written tasks
chairwarmer · office drone · mouse · clerk · typing · keyboard · deskworker · clock-watching · drone · sedentary · paper-pusher · spreadsheet · white-collar worker · fluorescent lights · soul-crushing · computer · email chains · employee
- workjob, 9 to 5, jobs, labor, employee
- office jobsmanager, office clerk, analyst, receptionist, administrative assistant
- office jargonsynergy, circle back, touch base, deep dive, action item
- lazybonescouch potato, lazybones, lazy bones, loafer, sluggard
- lazy stereotypescouch potato, slacker, loafer, layabout, idler
desk jockeyfield hand
Agricultural labor worker
road warrior · traveling salesman · roughneck · lumberjack · park ranger
desk jockeymanual laborer
Worker using physical effort
blue-collar worker · hard hat · longshoreman · dockworker · farmhand
desk jockeymanual laborer
Worker using physical effort
blue-collar worker · construction worker · roughneck · lumberjack · longshoreman
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