I hate sitting.

Posted on December 14th, 2011 by keithrw

Yes… hate is a strong word, but seriously. I sit probably an average of like 12 freaking hours a day!

Wake up, sit to eat breakfast, get ready, sit in the car on the way to work, get to work, sit and work… all day (sometimes I have meetings, but I sit for those too), leave work, sit in the car on the way home, sit for dinner, sit to pay bills, sit for Bible studies, sit to watch a movie, etc.

I hate sitting lately.

I’ve been kicking around the idea in my head to have my employer set up a standing desk for my cube for a few months now. Then someone posted this infographic on Google+ and finally pushed the idea into action.

As of this Monday part of my desk at work is a standing desk. My goals is to stand for at least 4 hours/day while working.

So, take that sitting! HA!

4 Responses to “I hate sitting.”

Justin • December 15th, 2011 at 2:12 am

When you say “part of my desk at work is a standing desk” what do you mean? How did you do this? Did you buy something to go on top of your desk? I am very interested in making a standing desk at work but much less interested in taking out the current desk in my office…

keithrw • December 16th, 2011 at 12:23 am

Hey Justin!
So basically I asked the corporate services crew at my place of work come by and raise one of the parts of my desk in my cube up to about 42″. That’s where my keyboard and mouse sit. Then about 24″ above that I asked them to place a shelf to set my laptop on so it’s at eye level and I don’t have to stare down at my screen. Another section of my desk is still at the same “sitting” height it always was and it has my laptop dock and second monitor. I’m thinking of requesting a second set of hardware (dock, monitor, keyboard, mouse) so I can just pop my laptop over and start stand-working immediately. We’ll see how that goes.

Not sure if this is helpful in your situation. All our cubes are modular so shelves/desktops are easily movable.

Wilhelmina • December 18th, 2011 at 2:13 pm

You keep it up now, udnesrtand? Really good to know.

Justin • December 22nd, 2011 at 4:56 pm

Thanks Keith! I don’t think my situation will be as easy (we’re not modular) but hopefully I can get something similar figured out. I don’t have a separate monitor (only a laptop) which makes it more portable but harder to keep hands and eyes in the right directions. I’m changing offices next week though so I’ll have a chance to try some things out.

Hope you and Carissa have a great Christmas! We’re headed to Canada this year so we’ll miss all the Wisconsin fam!

Keith Wyland