Tale Of Two Cities Time Analysis

“It was the best of times; It was the worst of times.” This opening line in Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities accurately describes my money life as well as experience. Money has been a friend to me as well as something that has kept me up at night. Money has resulted in happiness as well as a source of stress. From living with my parents as a child to life in an apartment as a college student, my views on money have changed, developed, and even reverted to views I had in earlier times due to various experiences with money. My money story hasn’t been exactly the most pleasant experience I have faced in life, but a journey nonetheless.
Initially, in my childhood, my experience with money was mostly focused on to save. I grew up in a financially
During the fall semester of my senior year in high school, I received my first job, a fast food employee at Bojangles. I didn’t receive a fixed allowance as a child, so Bojangles was the first time I experienced a fixed amount of income. At first, when I started to receive my first paycheck, I tended to spend a bit more then I would have like, however as time went on I gradually began to save more. Most of my spending during this period went to items such as clothes, literary magazine subscriptions, such as harper's magazine, the New Yorker, and The Economist, as well as some new books (quite expensive) such as Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Black Swan Green et cetera. I was a little uncertain at the time whether or not I made good purchases, perhaps this was due to pressure from my dad, but now I appreciate the purchases I made as I still where all the clothes I buy, read the same magazine subscriptions and re-read the books I brought. My spending habits carried over even when I went back to Bojangles, by the time I went back to college my sophomore I still spent a lot of money and saved a lot of