Take a look at a brief timetable of his life: He entered junior college when he was 12 and the Governor General's Office at 18. At 20 he left his job there, and when he was 24 he established the House of Love which he ran until he died at the age of 45. Nearly two-thirds of his life was devoted to working with beggars.
且將施乾短暫的一生依時間序排列：他在十二歲進工業學校，十八歲工校畢業進總督府，二十歲離職，廿四歲建「愛愛寮」，至四十五歲去世為止，他的一生有將近三分之二的歲月投注在「乞丐事業」裡。