would you trade lives?
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a profession seen from many lives

life as a therapist

4 strangers working as therapists have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 6.3 / 10, average stress 5.3 / 10. 52% of voters say they would trade lives with someone in this work; 30% would not.

averages across this group

4
lives
6.3/ 10
happiness
5.3/ 10
stress
7h/ night
sleep
17.3h/ week
free time
$3,375/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade52%
would not trade30%
unsure18%

223 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • stable19
  • meaningful14
  • enviable11
  • inspiring9
  • lonely8
  • peaceful8

four therapists have shared an anonymous fragment of their life from 3 countries, most often Argentina, Netherlands, and 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.

they report an average happiness of 6.3 / 10 and an average stress of 5.3 / 10, they sleep around 7.0 hours a night and have roughly 17 hours of free time per week, the median reported monthly income (across 4 fragments that disclosed one) sits near $3,375 USD-equivalent.

asked whether they would trade lives with therapists, 223 strangers have answered. the result is narrowly yes — slightly more strangers would trade in than not: 52% would trade, 30% would not, 18% are unsure.

the reactions readers most often leave on therapists' fragments are: stable, meaningful, and enviable. 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.

the fragments are spread unevenly across the world. by volume, the top countries for therapists in our dataset are: Argentina (2 lifes, 45% would trade); Netherlands (1 life, 60% would trade); Spain (1 life, 62% would trade).

where therapists have shared from

recent fragments