Please indulge me the trite introduction (albeit with a slight subversion); it’s easily recognizable so I’m inclined to just roll with it. 
My name is Grayson.
The only thing I’m quite convinced of regarding my current place is that it isn’t quite where I want to be, which I’m increasingly convinced is just my natural state of anxiety; many of you can relate to the feeling of always being that next one small thing away from having your whole world sorted out, I’m sure.
I’m relatively new to Linux and relatively infantile with Ubuntu; most of my Unix experience is with NixOS on my personal machine for the last ~3 years and RHEL at work/school for slightly longer, but I’ve started interacting with Ubuntu at work as of recent and thought it prudent to engage with the community resources to help enhance my knowledge outside of the workplace. It would appear I’m a jellyfish, then. I’m also planning to set up my first homelab laptop using Ubuntu because I’d very much like the OS to get out of the way while I’m building portfolio projects, setting up
I mentioned before my learning motivation to join the forum, but I also generally desire contribute to open-source software after using it for so long; it would make me feel helpful and would be very satisfying to “pay it forward”, so to speak. The primary way I can foresee myself being of use is to help update documentation, QA test, and eventually offer troubleshooting advice where applicable.
As a new community member, I would wager that you, the reader, have a more tangible notion of what could be done to help me along than I. I am welcome to hear whatever advice, feedback, or questions you have.
I am grateful to whoever has read this all the way through; I genuinely appreciate that you have given up some of your limited time for my thoughts. I wish you the best, sincerely.