Those were romantic times, but with earnings of only about NT $ 10,000 a month, it was hard to see much of a future in the work. You had to allow your idealism to trump all.
那段日子雖然有些浪漫，但每個月只有一萬塊出頭的薪水，讓人完全看不到明天在哪，只能靠理想硬撐。