His father passed away early on, and when he was still in grade school, Wang had to begin helping out with family finances. Usually on days off he would wander up and down Taipei's Chungshan North Road picking up old newspapers and broken bits of metal, which he would turn in for an NT dollar or half an NT dollar apiece.
父親早逝，還在念小學就得幫忙家計，平常假日他會沿著中山北路收集舊報紙、破銅爛鐵，換得五毛一元。