At The New York Times, clerks answer many of the phones in the newsroom.
That benefited Harith Khalid Aziz, an Iraqi refugee with a master's degree, who was earning little as a part-time clerk in a grocery.
She began working there in 1943 while she was still a law student at Columbia and was then, made a full-time clerk after her graduation in 1946.
He began his career at the post office as a temporary substitute clerk in 1929 and became a full-time clerk in 1935.
This is where Constantine Cavafy, a member of Alexandria's large Greek colony and the greatest Greek poet since antiquity, spent thirty-three years, from 1889 to 1922, as a part-time clerk.
"You want to do something to help, but you feel helpless," said Mamoru Arima, a Sendai native and part-time clerk at the store, which is in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo.
Highlights at the Young Vic included a controversial lyrical revival of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and an even-more-controversial, but brilliant, new adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial, set by director Richard Jones on a moving walkway to emphasize the humdrum inevitability of Rory Kinnear's fate as the bemused and persecuted small-time clerk.
Here we might see DiCamillo's own career, her ascent from full-time clerk in a store selling used books to author of a much-praised first novel for children, "Because of Winn-Dixie," which won a Newbery Honor Award and climbed the best-seller lists.
A part-time clerk at the Groovy Blueberry, Mr. Stryker said the issue of same-sex marriage spoke to students and other young people in a village that is just a half-hour drive away from the scene of the 1969 Woodstock concert.
Her son's maverick intelligence did not sit well with formal learning, and he left school at 13 to become a part-time clerk for the sports clothing store Perry van der Kar, whose connection with the Ajax club allowed Cruyff to train in the mornings before reporting for work after lunch.
