Describing the nature of political careers, he relates: "Looking around at the people of my generation in the DPP, most of them came out of backgrounds as legislative assistants or as student activists, and got into politics right out of school. But once this job disappears, we have no natural profession to which to return."
他也補充說明：「環顧民進黨跟我同世代的人，大部分都是國會助理或是學運世代出身，年紀輕輕一出校門就從政，一旦沒有這個位子之後，其實我們是沒有『本業』可以回歸的。」