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I'm techie by gift, not by trade. I'm an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.
Well, I'm here. I'm loving the fediverse. And I'm kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.
Went to school to be a history teacher but ended up working in accounting for a healthcare company. Just like my job I never really planned to be here, but i was on reddit for 11 years before jumping over last month. Im excited by the growth Iβve already seen, and to see how that will continue.
Bartender who's studying game designπ€
I'm technically Stoopid with computer stuff. I teach elementary school.
In STEM, but not tech specifically. At least not professionally.
Physical therapist
In a professional sense? Zero technical background. I have a general interest in tech, built a few computers and worked in an electronics section of a store for a few years (almost miss it.) Otherwise I'm the guy who has parents that say I should be in IT just because I know how to set up their TV.
Musician now studying compsci because I dun wanna starve :(
i'm not sure what counts as 'tech background', but i probably count. though my job is as a construction laborer.
Marketing / illustrator. I'm tangentially techy π
Lecturer at a university! I am a political economist working on post-growth/post-development and trying to change the economics discipline. So I guess I feel quite good on Lemmy now, better than reddit π
Iβm a real estate advisor so definitely non-technical though I do consider myself more familiar with the workings of computers and most other tech than the average person. Iβm familiar with the Linux command line at a basic level and have run Linux on my PCs before. Iβm also somewhat concerned about online privacy and frustrated over how capitalism is largely destroying the best things about the internet, something which seems to have accelerated as of late..
No tech background. I try to get by with online tutorials mostly.
I repair heavy equipment in the mining industry, as a welder.
Not techy at all, am very confused mostly. I am figuring all this stuff out though, slowly. It's so new and exciting.
I work in a bank and have very little technical knowledge about mechanics, software, coding and web design. However, I know a good deal about computer hardware, as one of my hobbies is fixing and building computers.
I work as a medical office assistant and left Reddit once whatever 3rd party app I was using was no longer supported. I am however supposed to be learning to take over a medical IT business at some point. Allegedly.
Marketing, illustration, and graphic design here. I also dabble in music making but have yet to do anything interesting.
Financial Services here. Licensed Broker for a major firm.
No technical background: historian, former university teacher and researcher, now researching at a museum. Did teach digital humanities though and am uhm... tech friendly?
I'm an arborist. The most tech I get is figuring out mechanical advantage setups with various pulleys and snatch blocks.
Im a biologist working in research. Ive always been a hobbyist with computers and videos games. But I never went into tech because I didn't want to make my hobby a full time job.
Love Lemmy and can't wait for it to be number one
I work in hospitality. There's a lot of waiting around at my job, so I mostly used Reddit to kill time. I hopped over to Lemmy since Wefwef's app is better and Blahaj.zone had a Lemmy instance
I work as a barista in a coffee shop. I'm decently techy if you compare me to the average population. I can't code or anything actually technical, but I'm a decent tech support for friends and family (and by that I mean I am able to find and follow instructions written by people smarter than me using search engines).
Part of me would love to go to school and learn how to code, or get a better understanding of computing and land an IT or sysadmin type of role, since I love tinkering around computers (I semi-regularly install and setup a new operating system on my computer just out of boredom) but it seems like too much effort.
Administration and office management but studied Ecology of course in college... it's like studying history in regards to getting a well paying job.
Personal care assistant
I mean, I was a 25B in the army, which could be counted as technical, except that after training I pretty much never saw another army computer and became a radioman.
How about a technical background not related to computers? I am a meatspace engineer, not a thoughtspace engineer.
History degree. Former lawyer. Current historian, public speaker, Podcaster, voice worker.
Not an official tech background, but I have built every desktop I have ever owned for decades. So I consider myself more knowledgeable than average. But less than anyone with a single year of comp sci training
I work in tech but I also lied on my resume and have no qualifications, and also I wish I had been a farmer, does that count?
Psychiatric nurse here.
Iβm in marketing and work on company websites from an SEO and content development perspective. Nothing too technical but Iβm aware of some of it even if I donβt know how make a server/instance Iβm aware of itβs benefits.
Also, Iβve done social media advertising and peeking behind that curtain opened my eyes on how advertisers use our data so it made me interested in open source and community run projects over company run software.
Donβt have any formal tech education, but can write a simple Python program or build a simple circuit with a 555 timer.