The better news is that it's a pretty exciting position for me, with a company I've admired for a long time, learning about the latest and greatest in new IT technology, while taking a position in an industry I've long studied: I'm now an outsourced resource.
Though my joy at finally working again is tempered greatly by the fact that the coronavirus has put a ton of people out of work, has put too many people into the ground, and has changed life irreversibly, as much as some people hope for a return to what we had before, our lives have been changed permanently. And now we have the long needed protest over the treatment of African Americans in our society. Hopefully life will be much better for everyone, no matter of color or any other criteria that people use to discriminate, and so I stand with my fellow people of color, as I recall my Mom's stories of racism during her life.