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This historian is well worth following:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-9-2026

"If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother. But “Mothers’ Day”—with the apostrophe not in the singular spot, but in the plural—actually started in the 1870s, when the sheer enormity of the death caused by the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War convinced writer and reformer Julia Ward Howe that women must take control of politics from the men who had permitted such carnage. Mothers’ Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers. It was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society."

I know we question things at some point, I'm talking about consistently since your were old enough to know what self worth is, have you known and been confident in it

My local fair is looking for people. The last couple years I wanted to apply, but always ended up going somewhere. It's only for 5 days, and it's like a 30 minute drive one way from my house. I'll only make like $675, which is practically nothing. The most it'll do is give me some more work experience to add to my resume. I also already re-applied to my old job, so if I get THAT one back, then I'll have to pass on this one. If I made at least $1000, I wouldn't think twice, but only $675 for 5 days of work and such a long back-and-forth commute doesn't seem worth it, to be honest.

I think long term, both can be viable forms of employment (well latter would be if unionized, pursuing similar gigs to compliment acting like modelling and commercial work), but for short term they may be easy to enter although come with the same issues: inconsistent schedules, paradoxically bad reliability, terrible pay, dealing with shady people, etc. However for security guard I'd need to pay hundreds of dollars for the training, background check, exams, and licensing whereas for background actor, I have to pay commission fees to the agencies or even annual membership fees (some do) and the pay is painfully slow/bureaucratic. Still worth doing either because they both are always in demand, pretty much anybody can qualify for it, and how the job operates is quite transparent/obvious (especially in this economy where pink collar jobs are as unlikely as winning the lottery to get, whereas gig apps are very unreliable due to strict rules and weird algorithms along with low pay).