would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a software engineer in Czech Republic

2 strangers working as software engineers in Czech Republic have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 7.5 / 10, average stress 5.5 / 10. 63% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 23% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

2
lives
7.5/ 10
happiness
5.5/ 10
stress
6.6h/ night
sleep
19h/ week
free time
$6,090/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade63%
would not trade23%
unsure14%

241 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful16
  • stable12
  • peaceful9
  • inspiring8
  • enviable7
  • lonely7

two software engineers in Czech Republic have 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 software engineers in Czech Republic, 241 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 63% would trade, 23% would not, 14% are unsure.

compared with software engineers worldwide, software engineers in Czech Republic are happier by 0.9 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 0.4 points, and more envied by 6 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Czech Republic, software engineers in Czech Republic are happier by 1.3 points on the 1–10 scale, less stressed by 0.8 points, and more envied by 12 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all software engineers globally
    happiness +0.9stress -0.4would-trade +6.0pp
  • vs all lives in Czech Republic
    happiness +1.3stress -0.8would-trade +12.0pp

fragments