taskwork

Would that I could agree; but I see her in the cities and everywhere, set down to menial taskwork.

After being engaged in his taskwork at the India House, he returned in the evening to amuse his father by playing cribbage.

Many of the later compositions even lack religious feeling, and seem to have been written as taskwork.

It's clear I can't do two things at a time—make love and carry on my taskwork.

God is not a master exacting taskwork, but a Father, jealous if we refuse our hearts.