The mixture will leave young cricket-lovers wondering whether they want to ascend to the spotlight or make do safely with their humdrum jobs.

When Mr. Hamper finally flunked out for good, he placed himself in therapy, the victim of anxiety caused by one of the most humdrum jobs on earth.

HOW do three men, trapped in humdrum jobs that sentence them to lifetime membership in the fraternity of unnoticed people, turn mere subsistence into meaningful existence?

Cranston suspected that Benedict Stark must pay these beauties plenty to keep them satisfied with the humdrum jobs they where so calmly attending to.

Of course there are humdrum jobs to be done like pasting things on boards and looking for scrap art from magazines to use in rough layouts.

Art for art's sake: Workers care about originality, technical professional skill, harmony, etc. of creative goods and are willing to settle for lower wages than offered by 'humdrum' jobs.

Wouldn't it be nice, they say, to leave our humdrum jobs and become teachers?

But for Al, Queens is also a humdrum job in the fish business and a miserable mother-in-law.

BUZZ: Let's not talk about my humdrum job, darling.

Lewis Mumford declared it a "humdrum job of engineering concealed beneath a mask of wholly perfunctory masonry."