would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a schoolteacher in Italy

1 stranger working as schoolteacher in Italy have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 8.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 74% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 7% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
8.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
7.2h/ night
sleep
22h/ week
free time
$3,514/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade74%
would not trade7%
unsure19%

81 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful7
  • enviable6
  • stable6
  • inspiring5
  • peaceful3
  • exhausting2

one schoolteacher in Italy 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 schoolteachers in Italy, 81 strangers have answered. the result is decisively yes — most strangers say they would take this kind of life: 74% would trade, 7% would not, 19% are unsure.

compared with schoolteachers worldwide, schoolteachers in Italy are happier by 2.1 points on the 1–10 scale and more envied by 20 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Italy, schoolteachers in Italy are happier by 1.2 points on the 1–10 scale and more envied by 15 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all schoolteachers globally
    happiness +2.1stress -0.1would-trade +20.0pp
  • vs all lives in Italy
    happiness +1.2stress +0.2would-trade +15.0pp

fragments