Whose childhood habit of taking apart and reassembling machinery was to put him in a unique position to solve the asparagus canning industry's problems. He first came into contact with the processes involved in preparing the vegetable when he was attending vocational school, and found them tiresome and time consuming.
民國五十九年，莊武鎮自高雄水產職業學校食品製造科畢業以後，曾先後進入一家製藥廠和一家木器玩具製造廠做事。當他去木器玩具工廠應徵時，是應徵設計師的職位，但老闆看他沒有較好的學歷和豐富的經歷，不免露出了難色，最後僅答應他以工人身份試做二個禮拜。