New job after long unemployment

I have a new job after a period of un(der)employment that predated the pandemic by many months. It has been a couple of weeks now, and today was the first day I ended my shift not feeling totally drained. If this keeps up, I'll be employed through November 3 of this year. The bad news is that it pays only a little bit more than Minneapolis's target minimum wage. The good news is that it involves the same skills I was using in my career before (answering questions by phone and email, usually looking up a lot of things in the process), except that this time it's all about elections and the rules by which they are conducted, instead of how to operate huge fast reliable data-storage-and-retrieval systems, which I've learned in the last ten years are under-regulated and being put to nefarious purposes. For this reason, I enjoy the actual work much more, even though it pays much less!

Bruce Schneier has repeatedly made the point that we need laws requiring the deletion of old data held by third parties (at least unless they get the explicit consent of the subject of the data for its preservation). He's right. We do.