Apart from the problem of accommodation which blighted Ko Ching-hua's childhood, as a teenager he had to do jobs like selling newspapers and delivering coal briquettes to earn his school fees, so he could finish his schooling.
除了住的問題，始終壓迫著隱地的童年生活之外，為了賺取自己的學雜費，隱地在青少年時期，必須賣報紙、送煤球，才能順利完成學業。