would you trade lives?
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a profession in one country

life as a truck driver in Canada

2 strangers working as truck drivers in Canada have shared an anonymous fragment of their life. Average happiness 5.0 / 10, average stress 6.0 / 10. 45% of voters would trade lives with one of them; 41% would not.

fewer than 5 fragments — averages may not be representative.

averages across this group

2
lives
5.0/ 10
happiness
6.0/ 10
stress
5.7h/ night
sleep
16.5h/ week
free time
$3,357/ month
avg income

how strangers vote on these lives

would trade45%
would not trade41%
unsure14%

125 voices

how this group feels to strangers

  • depressing7
  • enviable6
  • lonely6
  • meaningful6
  • stable6
  • exhausting5

two truck drivers in Canada 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 truck drivers in Canada, 125 strangers have answered. the result is split almost evenly: 45% would trade, 41% would not, 14% are unsure.

compared with truck drivers worldwide, truck drivers in Canada are less happy by 0.8 points on the 1–10 scale and less stressed by 1.0 points.

compared with everyone else in Canada, truck drivers in Canada are less happy by 1.4 points on the 1–10 scale and less envied by 8 percentage points in the trade-or-not vote.

how this compares

  • vs all truck drivers globally
    happiness -0.8stress -1.0would-trade -2.0pp
  • vs all lives in Canada
    happiness -1.4stress -0.1would-trade -8.0pp

fragments