It’s a new year, and that often means new resolutions. It is estimated that half of all Americans make some type of New Year’s Resolution. Can you guess the most popular? You got it — lose weight! Coming in just a few spots behind is to get fit and stay healthy. Unfortunately, only 8% of all resolutions are actually achieved. We’d like to help you out as you start the new year, and the new you, so we are giving away a standing desk from Beyond The Office Door. The benefits of a standing desk — from health to focus (as well as the harms of sitting in a chair all day) — are well documented. Get off your keister and start working like the manly writers and statesmen of old.
The Prize
The VertDesk is an electric adjustable height desk. That’s right, with the simple push of a button, you can move your work station up or down. It’s a 30″ x 36″ model, available with either a cherry or hardrock maple top color (winner gets to choose). The motor can lift up to 200 lbs, and it adjusts from 28″ high to 46.5″. Plug it in, and watch it smoothly move up and down at about an inch per second. The easy adjustability means you can switch from sitting to standing throughout the day. Click here to watch a video of the VertDesk in action.
This is a $689 value!
How To Enter
Entering is easy: simply tell us what kind of work you’ll be doing on your new standing desk. Writing the great American novel? Sorting through TPS reports?
Please be patient if your comment doesn’t show up right away! We moderate all comments, so your comment will not show up immediately. But it went through….so don’t post multiple comments!
If you’re an email subscriber and want to enter the contest, do not reply to the email to make your entry! You must click on the comment link here in the email and leave a comment under the post to enter.
A winner will be drawn randomly from the entries. The deadline for entry into the giveaway is Jan. 18, 2013. This post will be updated within 72 hours of the deadline with the winner’s name.
Good luck!
***UPDATE***
One winner was randomly drawn from the comments. And the winner is:
Keith Kuric, from Knox, IN
Congrats Keith!
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I have been learning Arabic and am starting Japanese to prepare for a study abroad, so this desk would be perfect to practice calligraphy!
Between my day job and attempting to start my own online business, I spend about 13 hours a day sitting behind a desk. Both desks are sitting. I hit up work for a standing desk but odds are them coming through are slim to none. I run every day, hit the weights and broga about six times a week and eat healthy but know the time I sit during the day is still taking a toll. I get up and walk around often, but that only goes so far. I’ve got eventual plans to add a standing desk at home and hopefully at some point I won’t have to worry about reporting to my “job.” Thanks for taking the consideration to help a brother out.
I’ll be finishing my undergrad in Finance, trading my account, reading more Hemingway, and planning my next world adventure.
I will be founding a theater company while being pregnant and trying to stay healthy.
I’ll be making maps at my standing desk. The art of cartography is totally dimished while sitting.
I will be standing and pursuing my MBA with a concentration in Operations Management!
I’ll (hopefully) be proving theorems as a first-year grad student.
As an Eighth grade English teacher, I will be creating lesson plans, grading essays, tests and other assignments from this standing desk.
With the health benefits of this desk, I can move more nimbly while multitasking my work, web surfing, and occasional breaks to toss a ball with the dogs.
I’m a graphic designer/typographer/illustrator. I would love to have this desk to help out with my leg circulation so I can kick butt while I draw awesome manly illustrations.
I’ll be getting my real estate business off the ground! See what I did there?
I’ll be studying organic chemistry from a more aggressive position. I’ll be reading literature and learning how to adapt fiction in a way that tells new stories. I’ll be leading my fraternity towards the values of integrity, commitment, and self-improvement.
Nice desk! I’d probably use it in my seminary-mandated attempt to learn Hebrew. Also, some essay writing and pretending to be Winston Churchill/Ernest Hemingway.
Writing and editing.
I would use the VertDesk to write a Ph.D. dissertation. This would combat a lot of computer chair time.
Sermon writing!!!
I will be studying for medical school, and working on paper work for my nursing degree.
browsing the interwebs, gaming, and saving my life by not sitting for 8 hours a day
I’ll be working on pieces of the Regional Transportation Plan for Central Massachusetts.
I will being customer service work from it
Preparing sermons, Bible Studies and writing notes. I think, after nearly 25 years, this desk might help improve my health. Please consider the awarding of this prize as a gift of mercy to a pastor
I’ll be working on it during the day, studying for grad school at night, and doing crossword puzzles on it over the weekend!
Research and reading on those topics which interest me the most: space, military history, and weather.
I write and use a computer in a semi professional manner so I’d be doing that except more of it because standing is supposed to increase productivity.
Studying Biblical Greek and Hebrew, and writing various papers for my theology classes.
I would stack mail on it, and maybe laundry. Also, I could definitely see it being used for paper football.
I would use this for two things (and believe me, I’ve thought of this type of desk for quite some time):
- I work all over town, meeting people and compiling information for reports. That means sitting in a car, or sitting in a meeting. Then I come home, and sit in front of the computer to report my findings. Sit, sit.
- I’m working on my children’s book, which also has me in a chair at my desk as I write and sketch on my pen tablet. More sitting!
Help me take a stand against it all.
I’ll be working on my new website (shameless plug) TheAmericanSeam.com which profiles men’s lifestyle products that are all made here in the US!
I’d like to be able to do personal finance and some PC gaming while standing at home. I sit all day at work and it is wasting away my abs. Standing at home would be a major health improvement.
I’m a game designer and graduate student and spend 90% of my day at a desk writing. It’s always been a dream of mine to have a standing desk where I can dream up new ideas to publish in games, and working on a dissertation involving meaning, thinking, and our representational concepts!
Writing papers and drawing pictures when I can’t handle typing anymore.
I’ll be making the coolest maps and analyzing the piles of spatial data!
I work from home, collaborating with a small team of professionals on small business solutions, including social media management, blogging, website design and management, and more. We are also kicking off some new projects to promote better overall lifestyle choices, and I want to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.
I’ll be underwriting loans – helping people get the stuff they need!
I’ll be designing board games, building board game prototypes, and of course I will be reading Art of Manliness at the desk!
I’ll be writing and practicing sermons!
I work from home and this seems like a better way to get things done than laying across the couch with the laptop on either me or the ottoman.
I’ll be doing my boring day job (software licensing) during the day, and studying music (and probably looking at cat pictures) at night.
I am a graphic designer and would be designing, sketching and brainstorming at this desk!
I will be dispatching trucks. Building America one rock at a time
Home office for my hopeful soon-to-be PhD research in robotics. Standing desk would make it a much healthier endeavor.
I will be composing sermons, and writing articles.
I’ve decided to become a real man and thought the best way would be to stand 10-11 hours a day, instead of sit, especially since sitting is so bad for your health. I’ve been thinking about putting together a DIY standing desk but I would much rather have this. It’s amazing!
If I had a desk like this I would respect it, and not use it as a clothes rack. Also, some poetry, lots actually.
I will be programming and probably a little bit of dancing.
Finishing my book on self-healing through Qigong and Tai Chi! Also watching the occasional Kung Fu movie, which, as we all know, is more fun standing up.
Greetings!
I am a Chaplain with the Texas Army National Guard and would use this desk for Bible Study and Sermon writing.
I will be studying to graduate college. I am a Junior and just moved into an empty apartment! This would be my first piece of furniture!
Editing video, reading the Bible, classics, journaling, and writing correspondence.
I’m a cop in New York City. Recently, I’ve been assingned a stationary post over in Hells Kitchen. It has an unheated booth to get out of the rain, but no real writing surface (just some stacked milk crates). I’ll bring it in there. Will be a great benefit to me and the guys.
Now that’s the kind of ergonomics I can get behind!
I’m a Jr. Copywriter/Ad Production guy at an agency, so my manly work will consist of crafting irresistible, persuasive headlines and stunning images digitally or drawing and finishing them myself.
I get all my best ideas standing and moving around, so that vertdesk would be killer to have.
Studying history and listening to Tom Woods and Ron Paul!
I’m doing my MA in philosophy; like Hemingway, I can think of no better way to study and write than standing at a desk with two freshly sharpened pencils, coffee (or wine) by my side, and delving into some Kierkegaard (who, unironically enough, also used one).
This would be the best thing I could ever win from this site, bar none.
Redesigning electric motors for rewind. This will make them more energy efficient and save money for companies.
I would use such a fancy desk for writing blog posts, I could also probably use it to map out an interactive dreamboard hmm.
I’ll be developing tools for video games artists to produce better work more efficiently, sewing costumes, and making props.
Would that I could say that I was going to write the next Great American Novel or to sign important legislation on this fine piece of mobile furniture. Alas, I would like this desk only that I might forestall the ravages of time and sedentarydom for as long as humanly possible. Through technology and your good graces.
I am a Manufacturing Engineer for an LED equipment company (basically EZ-Bake ovens for Light Emitting Diodes!). We are a small start up (3 employees when I started 2 years ago). I am at my desk quite often, drafting in 3D AutoCAD, tracking thousands of parts with our sophisticated program (excel haha), and then doing a little bit of everything else. I am an active person (biking, rock climbing, weight lifting, etc) so sitting for 8-10 hours a day KILLS ME!
Algebra, drawing, and maybe some music writing.
I’m the IT/webmaster of a nonprofit that helps friends and families of drug addicts. It’s quite the sedentary job, so months ago I decided to jerry-rig a standing desk out of nearby boxes. Here’s what I deal with now: http://i.imgur.com/EJpr8.jpg?1?9902
So I’d love to start off 2013 by helping the people we help in a more stylish fashion. Thanks!
I’m a freelance writer (feature articles, website posts, fiction), and I work out of a home office. When I get tired of sitting at my desk, I take my laptop to the kitchen, where the counter is the right height. This would make things so much easier, and it would like a lot nicer than the desk I’m working on now.
It seems this semester will be nothing but writing paper after paper. Gaming when I have free time too so not all work.
I would design great types (fonts) and jewelry on this table in design studio I’m starting up.
I’ll be starting my new job! And I need a new desk for it. Looks great.
I will use this standing desk to help increase my circulation as I perform insightful financial analysis for my clients.
What wouldn’t I do with it? Grade papers, write thank you notes, probably even fold laundry. What an awesome giveaway!
I’d use my vert desk to write my thesis on the symbolic use of severed hands in modern society! Also, writing up lesson plans for my composition course.
I would use the desk to study for my upcoming Fire Lieutenant’s test. I HATE sitting at a desk and have always experimented with places to stand and study (the bumper of a fire truck works pretty good). This desk could make the difference for me!
I will be bookkeeping.
That’s an easy one. I would journal, write letters, and write out my music charts…and look good doing it at that desk!
I’m gonna be writing the next great fantasy novel! (Or trying to.) I already use a standing desk at work, and I’d love to have an automated one in my home. Resting my laptop on my chest while reclining on my couch is not a productive posture.
Been wanting one of these for years! I create a makeshift one when I work from home – it’s pathetic, a couple books to support my laptop at the kitchen counter. I’ll use this awesome vert desk in my work as a human rights and social justice researcher.
I’ll be writing my Ph.D thesis.
(I guess this is only for Americans, but I can try, anyway).
No TPS reports for me, but I would be slogging through sales results and call reports for my sales team, as well as surfing the web and some other stuff!
Contract Law.
Have a home office, just got out of treatment for herniated disk; can’t sit in chair comfortably and was told to stand/walk as much as possible–so this would definitely be of tremendous aid. Love the concept!
Working working working.
Spreadsheet jockeying.
Probably everything (Though I haven’t considered sex and sleeping yet). As life at university implies a small work-sleep-eat-everything room, I’ll be reading the papers and my school books, writing my assignments (and entries like this one, I guess) and eating my every meal. Not surprisingly, it would be great to have the possibility of changing working-position.
I am an interactive Designer. I will creating masterpieces using the golden number. Research on why the pyramids are so freaking cool. Oh an of course a little face-booking.
I will be writing software for boards of directors of non-profits, universities and hospitals. Allowing myself to improve my health, including stretching out my tight hips from sitting down all day. Back pain and hip pain is a huge problem for me right now.
Well, depending on who we agreed would use it, in my house, it’d either be used for my partner’s desktop—he would love to have a standing desk, or in my studio, where it would be a wonderful way to switch gears between cutting fabric, sewing it, designing, drawing, and computing. Even just one of those tasks could benefit from variable heights depending on the details.
My wife and I have been talking about this. I sit at a desk all day designing and developing websites. This would be a great table for working on my custom leather belts and song writing. I NEEEEED THIS.
Drawing comics!
I’m stuck at a desk all day working. I am forced to look at cool articles on your site throughout the day. With the new desk I could do this standing thus making it much more cool. Thanks guys!
I will be analyzing investments to provide increased funding to a public university.
Sermon writing desk for my wife!
Quite simply I will be saving the universe via several MMoRPGs. I seem to sit for at least 2 hours playing, so that’s 2 hours I would be standing. I guess I could also do my schoolwork seeing how I’ve gone back to school at 40
I’ll be using it for writing, mostly, but a fair amount of crafting, and very manly sewing! If you don’t know how to sew, you’re not a real man! I mean, hell, you get to use a MACHINE! A SEWING MACHINE! How is that not manly?
Running my marketing agency – if it works, my employees will have to get off THEIR butts, too!
I’ll be sipping Dom Perignon while surfing the Art of Manliness.
I’ll also make some time to be productive.
I will be reading Customer Satisfaction Surveys and laughing at the poor grammar and spelling.
I would use it at work (I am a Physician Assistant working in a cardiology practice).
I’d be doing freelance web design.
I will not be accused of sitting on my fat ass.
I want this standing desk so I can work more ergonomically on business proposals. After being diagnosed with a chronic stomach disorder, sitting for a long time at a desk is often painful and counter-intuitive to my overall well being. Standing while working is amazingly more beneficial and productive. If not me, then I certainly hope it goes to a deserving gent. Good luck to all.
Since the desk isn’t all that lovely to look at, I’ll be selling it in order to make some cash.
I am an aspiring electrical engineer, so I would use the desk as a work table to fix and otherwise assemble/disassemble computers and other electronics. I also enjoy art and playing on my electric keyboard every now and then, so it would end up being a multipurpose work table.
Studying for school and writing papers.
Slogging through law school!
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