I thought about it later and realized that I really didn’t experience much competition in my life. Because my grades were so poor, I stayed in my neighborhood from preschool to high school. I was sent to a subpar college because of my bad grades, and the teacher didn’t let me take the college entrance examination, which I thought was fine. Then I randomly chose an automotive major, didn’t take the middle school entrance exam, and didn’t take the college entrance exam.

As a result, when I graduated, Shanghai General was recruiting assembly line workers, so I went there. Later I found out that the Shanghai government only allowed Shanghai General to recruit from Shanghai colleges, and at that time, Shanghai General was performing exceptionally well, selling cars faster than they could produce them every month. So they offered very good benefits for workers; as interns, we received double pay each month, and full-time employees received double or triple pay along with housing and fuel allowances.

What motivated me to resign was when the full-time workers I worked with on the assembly line told me they had been doing this for fifteen years. This stimulated me; I felt I didn’t want to do just one thing for my whole life, so I quit and went to study to become a programmer.