I searched Upwork for anyone that knows Hubitat and could not find someone.
Would be great to be able to hire someone to help with some of the integrations that I do not have the knowledge to implement.
Can I ask what you are trying to integrate?
You may find someone has already done what you are after and may be happy to share.
Just a thought.
Yes I am sure it has been done but I am not the 20 something with lots of spare time to learn how to program or script. I am the 40+ with 4 kids and very little free time. 
. I wish I could spend days trying to kearn this stuff but I just don’t have the time.
How old are your kids? This could be an ideal opportunity to spend time and learn together. I don't know for sure but I don't think there are that many 20 somethings here. I think you will find many in the upper range (way beyond 40).
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I am a Windows IT guy. My kids range from 16 to 8 and they have absolutely no interest in tech beyond Snapchat and instagram or YouTube. 
I wish they did have an interest as programming really is one of the real future opportunities.
I just don’t have the bandwidth to allocate to learning this stuff. I wish I did.
I think unless you spend some time learning how to put things together, neither you nor your family will be too happy when something stops working correctly and you can't reach someone. Hubitat provides a broad range of complexities. Simple lighting can be the first step and works for most basic lighting situations. Rule Machine when you have some experience.
I don't know what you have in mind but you might want to spell out what devices you have and what you envision for your home.
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I echo what the others have said. Post your use cases and expectations. Lol this forum has a slew of highly experienced people ready to offer guidance /assitance /support.
If you have a unique use case in mind it may spark someone's interest enough to help you get it done.
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Where you based @mgilbert ?
Bay Area California
I do t need help with physical install. More programming. I can spin up a vm and give remote access. I am more looking at the possibilities exporting and graphing live and historical data.
Many of us do this already using NodeRed to InfluxDB to Grafana. All three of these can run on an always-on Raspberry Pi, Linux, or Windows system. I use a Windows 10 system to do this today.
You’re correct that it does take a little bit of time to get it up and running alongside Hubitat. Hopefully someone in the Bay Area will offer their services.
Does not have to be someone local. Most of the talent I hire is from the eastern bloc when it comes to database or operating systems other than windows. I just get them remote access to the system
What exactly do you mean when you say "eastern bloc"? The Eastern Bloc I am thinking of would not be the type of folks I'd invite to remote into my network!
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I have been using engineers from Europe and Eastern Europe for years. I never just give them remote access such as SSH. It is always just screen access and all my sessions are recorded. And I never give them my passwords.
That seems to suggest that anyone in America is trustworthy and does not have any bad intentions. 
. You got good and bad everywhere!
I have engineers that have provided me support for 10+ years.
Yes I would agree you need to be very careful. Giving a stranger ssh or vpn access is pretty stupid!
And Information Security. 
You can lock it down. We do it all the time. And easier too then to have to sit there and give someone screen access and babysit them. You can do custom VLAN'ing on the network side and only allow certain machines to be accessed. You can do shell replay logging on the SSH side if you're really paranoid. Tons of use cases out there for good security.
I digress however... anyway, I would definitely be interested in hearing your use cases. I'm a newbie to Hubitat and am already starting to work on some use cases here so I'll be ready when I get the funds to buy all of the stuff I need to implement them. I'm already creating rules and whatnot for my existing gear. I'm pretty excited.
I really like the graphing and historical data.
Actually I am looking at this for a customer of mine. Do dry aged meats and have 10 walk-in refrigerators. I have talked to them about being able to monitor and track the temp and humidity centrally rather than taking manual temperatures during day time. Also tracking the status of the doors to the refrigerators. Most systems tend to be cloud only. One had store forward capabilities but graphing was basic and alerting was not very good.
That sounds like a use-case best fulfilled by a PLC monitoring temperature, humidity, and door status. Then add in a SCADA package, like iFIX, to collect and store the data in its data historian feature. Build a few screens to display graphs, and add some alarming and notifications, and you have a very solid, robust solution on very well supported platforms.
This is what I’ve done for a living at a Fortune 500 company for the past 28 years! 
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So I would like the ability to graph temp and also power usage. If I am going to go down this path what should I learn about to be able to deploy this?
Step 1. Spin up a Linux VM. This I can do but after that......
It is these items that I have no idea how to deploy and or get them to talk to one another.
influxdb
Node-Red
Grafana
Also would it be possible to deploy influxdb local to the hubitat and deploy Grafana to a cloud-based VM that way the grafana server could be used for graphing data from multiple locations?
I have sent you a pm - I think I may be able to assist you
