would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a software engineer in Poland

2 strangers working as software engineers in Poland have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 6.5 / 10. 41% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 40% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

2
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
6.5/ 10
stress
7h/ night
sleep
24h/ week
free time
$3,722/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade41%
would not trade40%
unsure19%

86 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • meaningful7
  • stable6
  • peaceful4
  • chaotic3
  • depressing3
  • lonely3

two software engineers in Poland 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 Poland, 86 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 41% would trade, 40% would not, 19% are unsure.

compared with software engineers worldwide, software engineers in Poland are less happy by 1.6 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.6 points, and less envied by 16 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

compared with everyone else in Poland, software engineers in Poland are less happy by 0.8 points on the 1–10 scale, more stressed by 0.9 points, and less envied by 7 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all software engineers globally
    happiness -1.6stress +0.6would-trade -16.0pp
  • vs all lives in Poland
    happiness -0.8stress +0.9would-trade -7.0pp

fragments