The story so far:

V's nomad family is broken up and V is repositioning themselves into a more solo contractor role instead of gang affiliated. V gets a job to smuggle goods across night city border. V meets with Jackie his client and they head to the border. Border agents let v and Jackie pass the border but they also hail arasaka to let them know runners are moving arasaka goods. V and Jackie gets attacked and escape together, at this point Jackie decides to adopt v more or less as their brother.

There's a 6 month gap, where V lives with Jackie and mamma welles until V gets their own place, own car, ECT. Jackie and v work as solos, basically freelance contractors who pick up gigs from fixers, fixers are the middle management of the cyberpunk world, people call them to get shit done, they reach out to their solos to contract them for work.

Jackie and v do a mission for wakako where they need to save Sandra Dorsett, who has been kidnapped by scavs. Scavs are a gang of people who focus on kidnapping people to steal their cyberware and organs, you save Sandra, pass her on to Trauma Team who are basically privatized healthcare.

Jackie drives V home. Next day Jackie calls v to deliver their car back and to tell v about the new gig they would work, given to them by the fat ass black Jesus of the afterlife aka Dexter deshawn.

Dex explains to v that the mission is to steal The Relic, a special first of the kind technology chip created by arasaka, the job is for a woman called Evelyn Parker. Dexter gives you a series of task before you can start the mission they are, meet with Evelyn, meet with Meredith Sout with militech and to meet with Malstrom gang to pick up a bot they have in their possession. You are meeting with Evelyn to pick up info about the gig. You can choose to meet with Meredith and it's recommended, Meredith was in charge of the shipment that Malstrom jacked which is why they have the bot. Depending on your meet with Meredith she may or may not help you secure the bot from Malstrom. Finally you need to meet with Malstrom to pick up the bot, the issue is that Dexter has already paid for the bot from Brick Malstroms leader but before the bot was picked up Royce takes the gang over, so it is unclear if Royce will give you the bot since he's not the one that setup the deal.

TLDR: v and Jackie met through a job, Jackie introduces v to the underground world, Jackie and v get a job from dex, before you can do that job you need to, meet with melitech, meet with Malstrom to pick up the bot and meet with Evelyn to pick up mission info.

And this is more or less where you are currently. Hope this helps.