As a senior in college, he took a course in education. He also scored high in a Ministry of Education teacher recruitment exam that unusually was open to graduates of ordinary universities as well as to those of teacher training institutes. His father took him to fill out the paperwork, and when he wrote in Nantou County as his preferred place of employment, the clerk's face registered a look of astonishment.
大四時他加修教育學程，並在教育部少見的開放一般大學公費生考試中高分錄取，當父親代他辦理手續，在分發志願欄填上「南投縣」時，還令承辦人員一臉愕然。