Even if his academic record wasn't anything special, he worked to help support his family. He was quick at making chicken cages, and early every morning would wash and shell the dried fava beans that his mother bought at the wholesale market and sold from her front door outside the military dependents 'village.
儘管功課不怎麼樣，王建卻是補貼家用的好幫手，蓋起雞籠來手腳俐落，每天清晨還將母親在市場批購回來的乾蠶豆篩洗去殼，好讓母親在位於眷村外圍的自家門口賣蠶豆仁。