[finnthehuman]

It's not landscaping, it's a fucking desk job.

The defining property of desk jobs is that they're not strongly tied to location or equipment to preclude doing them at a desk. So out of convenience we use desks.

Do you think every desk job other than software is just rote mechanical behavior that happens at desks, but only software is clever enough to need to think about what they're doing?

[wink]

Interestingly, there are tons of academic "desk jobs" that have a much higher percentage of "not sitting at a computer/desk" work, and I don't mean that in the sense of "not needing to think".

But I know, that's not what you meant, but I still don't see myself needing to get up for any reason (at least without in-person meetings) whereas others do that a lot :P

[loco5niner]

> Do you think every desk job other than software is just rote mechanical behavior that happens at desks

Well, certainly a lot of it. Data entry, check processing, etc. These are the jobs software is doing away with specifically because it is clever.