would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a journalist in Japan

1 stranger working as journalist in Japan have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 7.0 / 10, average stress 5.0 / 10. 69% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 18% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
7.0/ 10
happiness
5.0/ 10
stress
6.1h/ night
sleep
13h/ week
free time
$4,258/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade69%
would not trade18%
unsure13%

62 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • inspiring5
  • stable5
  • meaningful3
  • peaceful3
  • stressful2
  • chaotic1

one journalist 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 journalists in Japan, 62 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 69% would trade, 18% would not, 13% are unsure.

compared with journalists worldwide, journalists in Japan are happier by 0.7 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 1.7 points, and more envied by 24 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Japan, journalists in Japan are happier by 1.0 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 1.4 points, and more envied by 22 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all journalists globally
    happiness +0.7stress -1.7would-trade +24.0pp
  • vs all lives in Japan
    happiness +1.0stress -1.4would-trade +22.0pp

fragments