text:  of a lot of folks kind of in middle america they don't live on the the two big coasts where there are so many of these big tech jobs and the pandemic opened up new opportunities for them right so she went to work at amazon then she worked at another company that was based in california after that both in remote capacities from her home in kansas and she said it was really you know sort of exciting to have these chances opened up because i've never had them in the past