Word: clerking
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...know that some people work in factories and that other people sell things, but they imagine that the factory people are dirty and ignorant and that the salesmen are back-slapping parasites whose function is to force their customers to buy things they neither need nor want. The unfortunate clerk who pores over his account books from dawn to dusk is in a blind alley and the slave of his work. "These", says the senior, "are not the things I want to do; surely somewhere in the business world is a job for a college man, perhaps...
...President, as pertinent to this particular subject, I ask unanimous consent that the clerk read an interesting relic of real constitutional government...
...Chief Clerk Crockett intoned...
...GROVER CLEVELAND"* Hardly had the words left the Clerk's mouth when Senator Bailey of North Carolina cried: "Mr. President, a sufficient answer to the message from former President Cleveland is the statement that he was President in horse-&-buggy days...
Then he got a job as bank clerk in Paris...