For many, getting laid-off calls for a six-pack of Bud and some Toby Keith country tunes at full blast. But not for Wuhan's Zhang Wuyi, who after being dropped from a textile machinery factory, now builds and sells mini-submarines for a living, selling his vessels for 200,000RMB per sub. more ›

We always thought farming was a pretty exciting lifestyle- all that cyclical plowing, sowing, cultivating, picking and selling sounds like a blast! If you're actually farming, though, the charm wears off after a while, and you feel the need to move on to something more adventurous. Building walking, talking robots is old news, so why not up the ante and build a submarine, an airplane or a tank? more ›