would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a schoolteacher in Mexico

1 stranger working as schoolteacher in Mexico have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 7.0 / 10. 50% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 32% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

1
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
7.0/ 10
stress
7.7h/ night
sleep
11h/ week
free time
$1,804/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade50%
would not trade32%
unsure18%

85 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful6
  • enviable5
  • stressful5
  • stable4
  • depressing3
  • peaceful3

one schoolteacher in Mexico 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 Mexico, 85 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 50% would trade, 32% would not, 18% are unsure.

compared with schoolteachers worldwide, schoolteachers in Mexico are less happy by 0.9 points on the 1–10 scale and more stressed by 0.9 points.

compared with everyone else in Mexico, schoolteachers in Mexico are less happy by 1.4 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.7 points, and less envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all schoolteachers globally
    happiness -0.9stress +0.9would-trade -4.0pp
  • vs all lives in Mexico
    happiness -1.4stress +0.7would-trade -6.0pp

fragments