would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a architect in China

1 stranger working as architect in China have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 7.0 / 10. 33% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 52% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
7.0/ 10
stress
7.3h/ night
sleep
13h/ week
free time
$4,114/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade33%
would not trade52%
unsure15%

138 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • depressing10
  • lonely7
  • exhausting6
  • meaningful6
  • stressful6
  • inspiring5

one architect in China has shared an anonymous fragment of their life. the sample is small — read the numbers below as suggestive, not definitive.

asked whether they would trade lives with architects in China, 138 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly no — slightly more strangers would keep their own: 33% would trade, 52% would not, 15% are unsure.

compared with architects worldwide, architects in China are less happy by 1.4 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.6 points, and less envied by 12 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in China, architects in China are more stressed by 1.0 points and less envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all architects globally
    happiness -1.4stress +0.6would-trade -12.0pp
  • vs all lives in China
    happiness 0.0stress +1.0would-trade -6.0pp

fragments