would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a journalist in South Africa

1 stranger working as journalist in South Africa have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.0 / 10, average stress 8.0 / 10. 35% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 54% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
6.0/ 10
happiness
8.0/ 10
stress
7.7h/ night
sleep
14h/ week
free time
$2,620/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade35%
would not trade54%
unsure11%

95 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • stable6
  • exhausting5
  • stressful5
  • chaotic3
  • depressing3
  • inspiring3

one journalist in South Africa 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 South Africa, 95 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly no — slightly more strangers would keep their own: 35% would trade, 54% would not, 11% are unsure.

compared with journalists worldwide, journalists in South Africa are less happy by 0.3 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 1.3 points, and less envied by 10 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in South Africa, journalists in South Africa are happier by 0.5 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.7 points, and less envied by 8 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all journalists globally
    happiness -0.3stress +1.3would-trade -10.0pp
  • vs all lives in South Africa
    happiness +0.5stress +0.7would-trade -8.0pp

fragments