In 1988, he entered the Wooden Ark Folk Song Contest. In the finals, all of the other contestants sang in Mandarin Chinese. Lim sang a Taiwanese-language song he'd written himself, "Uncertainty, Frustration, Dreams." Mandala Works International Communications head Ni Chung-hua thought that Lim was an interesting young man and signed him on as a production assistant.
1988 年，他報名參加「木船民歌比賽」，決賽時所有歌手都唱國語歌，只有他唱自己寫的台語歌「茫．惘．夢」，當時真言社傳播公司的老闆倪重華，覺得這個年輕人很有意思，力邀他到公司當製作助理。