would you trade lives?
anonymous · text only · no accounts

a profession in one country

life as a musician in Germany

1 stranger working as musician in Germany have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 49% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 37% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
8.2h/ night
sleep
27h/ week
free time
$2,577/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade49%
would not trade37%
unsure14%

115 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • peaceful6
  • exhausting4
  • stable4
  • depressing3
  • enviable3
  • inspiring3

one musician in Germany 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 musicians in Germany, 115 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 49% would trade, 37% would not, 14% are unsure.

compared with musicians worldwide, musicians in Germany are less happy by 1.6 points on the 1–10 scale.

compared with everyone else in Germany, musicians in Germany are less happy by 1.3 points on the 1–10 scale.

how this compares

  • vs all musicians globally
    happiness -1.6stress -0.2would-trade -3.0pp
  • vs all lives in Germany
    happiness -1.3stress -0.3would-trade -3.0pp

fragments