I've been looking for a really good chair for decades. I'll pay whatever it takes to be comfortable for the third of my waking life that I spend at a desk.
The headrest is the tricky part for me. I demand one because I like to lean back and think a lot. Most headrests are either too low (I am long-waisted) or have too much padding, pushing my head too far forward for proper thinkability. I finally bought the "High Back Microsuede Managers Chair" from Staples. It was closer to an ideal fit than any other I had tried, and at $100, I could afford to ditch it if I found the ideal chair a month later (or more likely, I figured, if it broke). Five years later -- three of them working in the chair all day, every day -- its only issue is that the seat padding has lost some oomph. It's probably time to look for a nice sheepskin pad, or maybe I should go wild and splurge on a replacement chair (even through the price has shot up to $125). So the moral is: Your local office supply superstore has a lot of cheap chairs that might serve better than you think. Sub-moral: Aeron has a bar going across the seat that bothers my thighs. Sub-sub-moral: VCs love to sound insightful by making silly pronouncements about things like office furniture. lj _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
