would you trade lives?
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a profession seen from many lives

life as a retired civil servant

1 stranger working as retired civil servant have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 8.0 / 10, average stress 2.0 / 10. 77% of voters say they would trade lives with someone in this work; 6% would not.

averages across this group

1
lives
8.0/ 10
happiness
2.0/ 10
stress
8h/ night
sleep
90h/ week
free time
$1,874/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade77%
would not trade6%
unsure17%

36 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • inspiring2
  • stable2
  • chaotic1
  • enviable1
  • lonely1
  • meaningful1

one retired civil servant has shared an anonymous fragment of their life all from Spain. 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.

asked whether they would trade lives with retired civil servants, 36 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 77% would trade, 6% would not, 17% are unsure.

the reactions readers most often leave on retired civil servants' fragments are: inspiring, stable, and chaotic. 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.

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