four investment bankers have shared an anonymous fragment of their life from 3 countries, most often United Kingdom, France, and Netherlands. every entry is one person describing the shape of their own days — hours of sleep, money, stress, what they actually feel — to be read and weighed by strangers who never know who they are.
they report an average happiness of 3.5 / 10 and an average stress of 9.3 / 10, they sleep around 5.3 hours a night and have roughly 7 hours of free time per week, the median reported monthly income (across 4 fragments that disclosed one) sits near $16,222 USD-equivalent.
asked whether they would trade lives with investment bankers, 386 strangers have answered. the result is firmly no — most strangers would rather keep their own life: 20% would trade, 65% would not, 15% are unsure.
the reactions readers most often leave on investment bankers' fragments are: lonely, depressing, and exhausting. these tags are picked from a fixed list, so the words above carry the weight that strangers actually placed on them, not anything we paraphrased.
the fragments are spread unevenly across the world. by volume, the top countries for investment bankers in our dataset are: United Kingdom (2 lifes, 22% would trade); France (1 life, 19% would trade); Netherlands (1 life, 15% would trade).