Their NT $ 24,000 mortgage and their basic living expenses left little money for anything else. Yang wasn't interested in looking for work. When he wasn't holed up at home, he was at the library. He had once wanted to write for a living, but soon learned that writing involved a great deal of work for very little money.
楊基寬不想找工作，不是窩在家中，就是跑圖書館，一度想投稿寫作，但他也發現，寫稿是廉價勞動，而寫作也常遇到瓶頸，每天絞盡腦汁，卻寫不出令他滿意的文章。