Desk jobs

It seems to me that the modern, connected, digital world is converting everything into what can be called "desk jobs".

I am reading "Book and Dagger" aloud to Lynn and we have read about 60% of the book.  We know from experience that the software Amazon uses often includes material that we don't consider part of the main text. 

The book is about the use of librarians, library and document researchers and such bookish types in the espionage services of the Allied armies while most people carry an image of a suave, well-dressed man as a spy.  My wife was an elementary school librarian, a high school librarian and a professor of school librarianship and she knows what shepherding books around teens and kids is like.

At the time, I first started teaching teacher-prep students and graduate teachers, spreadsheets were just becoming available.  I eventually had classes of many students and spreadsheets that kept my records were a great help.  I once heard the head of career advising for a college say that knowing how to use a spreadsheet was the single most valuable skill college students could learn.  Having a stack of papers or a file of student email that had to be converted into grades was a very common task for me.

People whose morale stays high and who accomplish various computer and recording-keeping tasks with few or no errors are needed in an increasing range of desk, clerical type jobs.  Law enforcement, spycraft, teaching, research - virtually all jobs call for accurate, up-to-date records and communication.