I'm a grad student based out of California, but I'll be moving within the US (not sure where yet) in the next 6 months. I've always seen life and its problems from multiple perspectives and have dealt with these problems head-on rather than blaming someone for them. I strongly dislike people who lie and people whose actions don't align with their words. This is why I have a hard time making friends my age, because their priorities are different. I prefer to optimize a relationship for happiness and honest communication, while most of my generation feels this is too real and it scares them.
As for working on myself, I know what I want from my career and have a brief outline of the next few years planned. I also make time to read to better structure my thoughts and a guilty pleasure may be a really corny romcom (The Love Hypothesis smh).
If you share these values and would like to have a genuine connection, do send a DM!