Chinese resident Yue Li left a management position at a Beijing development company and moved to the uninhabited island of Dongji, where she found a job as an inspector at a fish feeding base, earning approximately 3000 yuan (approximately 434 USD) per month, according to the South China Morning Post.

Li worked in real estate development in Beijing for nearly two decades. She says the work eventually became an unbearable burden: not only was it mentally debilitating, but it also consumed all her free time. At some point, she decided it was impossible to continue in the same vein and quit.

Her duties in her new position are strikingly different from her previous ones: Lee monitors the equipment, measures water temperature, and monitors fish growth. Although the income is incomparable to her previous position, she doesn't regret her choice.