Quitting jobs to fulfill dreams no longer taboo in China

"The world is big, and I want to see it," wrote a teacher in her resignation letter from a middle school in Central China's Henan province. She had worked there for 11 years.

A photo of the letter, reportedly taken and posted online by one of her colleagues, instantly went viral on social media and attracted tens of thousands of comments and reposts, including on Chinese microblogging platform Weibo. Many more letters of resignation, each with its own characteristic charm, were posted online after the Henan teacher's letter became a hit.

Samples show some as succinct: "I resign, please sign." Some mock the air quality: "It's so smoggy that I can't find my way to office." Others' reasons for resigning vary: looking for better bosses, meeting more women at work, or returning to hometown to fulfill the dream of raising pigs.