posts: plaintext-accounting: add history section

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## My accounting journey
* gifts
* credit card during high-school/CPGE
* joining the YAKA-ACU team
I went through most of my life without having to account for my money
explicitly, making use of the "dad bank". I received small sums of money at
Christmas and for birthdays, most of which went straight to an envelop that my
dad kept for me. This is the money that I used to buy myself books, games, and
other small things during childhood. My father kept track of the money and told
me how much I had left whenever I asked him.
During high school, my parents opened a bank account for me, and handed me
a credit card to allow me to buy lunch, make gifts, and other discretionary
spendings without having to explicitly go through them. It was regularly checked
on by my parents to make sure I always had some amounts of money to my name in
case I needed it, which they did up and until my engineering school. At this
point I had a pretty good idea of how much I could spend and when I could spend
it. This information could fit entirely in my head without any problems.
Once I had spent a year at EPITA, I decided to apply to the team of teaching
assistants. Between the money that I earned during my internship and what I
was earning as an assistant, I was finally gaining some financial independence.
Until very recently I was still mostly keeping track of my spending in my head,
my student job allowing me to avoid explicitly budgeting my money.
## Why do I want an actual accounting solution?