Woolf’s views on work are elitist. She highlights this herself when she says her first purchase with her first paycheck was a Persian cat. Most women of that time are looking for a job did so to keep food on the table and sustain life in general. As she mentions in her essay “when I came to write, there were very few material obstacles in my way” (Woolf 307). She was considered very privileged for her time. Virginia Woolf is able to be leisurely with her money because of her wealthy background and unusually high education level. Her father was a historian and an author himself who provided his daughter with higher education unlike most families in that time period. Her life is something obscure to the majority of women.