In 1972 he had just finished his military service, his father had retired and his mother was suffering from cancer when he went to work at a ceramics company in Miaoli in search of a "settled life." "Maybe it was fate," Hsu says, "but ever since then my life has been bound up with ceramics and pottery, and before that I knew nothing about it at all."
民國六十一年，徐崇林剛從軍中退伍，工作尚無著落，當時徐父也剛退役，偏逢母親癌症病情惡化，為了「安定生活」，經人介紹，徐崇林進入苗栗長城陶瓷工廠作事，「或許是命中註定，從此我和陶瓷結了緣，在這之前，我對陶瓷沒什麼概念」，徐崇林說。