would you trade lives?
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a profession seen from many lives

life as a pilot

4 strangers working as pilots have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.5 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 54% of voters say they would trade lives with someone in this work; 31% would not.

averages across this group

4
lives
6.5/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
6.8h/ night
sleep
24.8h/ week
free time
$11,815/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade54%
would not trade31%
unsure15%

468 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • inspiring24
  • stable24
  • peaceful20
  • lonely18
  • meaningful18
  • enviable17

four pilots have shared an anonymous fragment of their life from 3 countries, most often Germany, Australia, and Singapore. 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 6.5 / 10 and an average stress of 6.0 / 10, they sleep around 6.8 hours a night and have roughly 25 hours of free time per week, the median reported monthly income (across 4 fragments that disclosed one) sits near $11,815 USD-equivalent.

asked whether they would trade lives with pilots, 468 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 54% would trade, 31% would not, 15% are unsure.

the reactions readers most often leave on pilots' fragments are: inspiring, stable, and peaceful. 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 pilots in our dataset are: Germany (2 lifes, 58% would trade); Australia (1 life, 44% would trade); Singapore (1 life, 57% would trade).

where pilots have shared from

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