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I think most all of us here on Lemmy are people with technical background. Most of my professional contacts remained using Reddit, Twitter and even excited when Threads launched.

If you are non-tech background, please comment and share what you do for life.

If you have tech background, upvote this to help promote this post so that we can find more non-tech users on Lemmy.

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[-] Moohamin12@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I work for an outsourced company representing a large search engine brand. The largest.

I am not on the tech end though. I handle partner relationships. Aka I am the company rep from a tech jugganaut, to people way more tech saavy than me.

I spend my days hoping I don't get caught out.

[-] StealthToad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Retired military at a young age working property maintenance at a storage facility part time to kill time.

[-] sol@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Lawyer here, but a lot of my interests are tech-adjacent.

[-] FallGuy217@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I work in the office side of a distribution center. I’m far from technologically illiterate, but my knowledge drops off a cliff when I get outside my comfort zone. I know enough not to bother IT most of the time, so I count that as a win.

Reddit killing the 3rd party apps pissed me off a little bit, but their AMA about it really made me start looking for alternatives. So here I am!

[-] rabs@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Don’t have a technical background per se.

I have a degree in music education, and work at a consulting firm doing non-programming-language-based data work.

Personally, though, I am a very technical person who loves science and math. I have a tinkerer’s mindset; I love taking things apart and understanding how they work, then putting it back together.

[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Writer. Have some very basic tech knowledge but mainly just had enough of reddit's bullshit 🤷‍♂️ lemmy is pretty easy to understand imo, I don't know how the fuck you keep a server running but I'm glad that many people here do so I can just sign up and shitpost.

[-] todaywasgood@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’m a bartender

[-] pseudonym@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago

Interesting question. I'm a software developer, but I just wanted to point out that reddit also started out very heavily skewed toward tech workers. The non tech people came quite a bit later for the most part. Even today from what I can tell, software developers are overrepresented on Reddit.

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[-] lunaticneko@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

HPC researcher but I suck, so am I partially technical?

[-] TekAzurik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I’m a cinematographer and editor so I spend a lot of time working with tech but very specific stuff. I’m still on reddit for now. At least until Narwhal becomes prohibitive to use. Fuck Twitter and Threads.

[-] Flost888@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago

Is telematican an heatpump-programmer a technical background?

[-] zemon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I work at the railways as an overhead line mechanic.

[-] yerbuddyboston@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I took a computer programming class for a semester in high school and was a Computer Science major for a month in college, but that’s the closest thing I’ve got to anything resembling a technical background.

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Half I guess? Graduated in a non technical field but I ended up taking a lot of CS and math classes. But now I'm not really doing anything since I've been depressed since college. There's probably a lot of stuff I could do if I could get over the motivation hump.

[-] Scooter411@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Public Affairs

[-] adistantmirror@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] 132andBush@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Electrician. I'm new here and looking for a good alternative to reddit since the whole 3rd party app thing.

[-] EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I'm non tech, in a professional role. I just like computers.

[-] gaytswiftfan@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I work in retail management lol! although I have spent p much my entire life around computers and am tech savvy :p

[-] Zak8022@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I’m tech-adjacent, lol. Technically I’m in Operations, but end up also doing a little project/product management. I wear many hats, which in one way is. I’ve but in others is very annoying.

[-] jcit878@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

spreadsheets and stuff but I don't know much other than how to google problems

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[-] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, I have a degree in tech. Work in finance. Tech hobbies, programmer second job

So I probably don't fit. Most of my working life was retail though.

[-] DM_ME_SQUIRRELS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No tech background. I work as a teaching assistant and after-school teacher with grades 1-4 (not exactly, but those are the closest US equivalents). Always loved technology though so I spend as much time as I can teaching my kiddos programming and other nerdy things.

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