would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a firefighter in Japan

1 stranger working as firefighter in Japan have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 54% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 33% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
6.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
6.1h/ night
sleep
25h/ week
free time
$1,812/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade54%
would not trade33%
unsure13%

136 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • peaceful7
  • chaotic5
  • lonely5
  • stable5
  • depressing3
  • enviable3

one firefighter in Japan 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 firefighters in Japan, 136 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 54% would trade, 33% would not, 13% are unsure.

compared with firefighters worldwide, firefighters in Japan are less happy by 0.8 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 0.8 points, and more envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Japan, firefighters in Japan are less stressed by 0.4 points and more envied by 7 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all firefighters globally
    happiness -0.8stress -0.8would-trade +6.0pp
  • vs all lives in Japan
    happiness 0.0stress -0.4would-trade +7.0pp

fragments