Nice to see so many non-technical users. It's good for diversity. HackerNews, Tildes, Hubski and Lobste.rs already cover that sphere pretty well.

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?

I work in a warehouse after quitting my logistics job where I was managing a forklift team. If I ever have to work in an office again I'll just quit and find someplace else to work. I can't stand middle class people who think they're better than the working class just because they have a degree. It's ironic how they kept making the dumbest possible decisions and expected no one with logistical sense to say "that's not actually feasible".

You think someone with a college education could understand that if you take 3 boxes in and only send 2 boxes out, you're eventually going to fill an entire warehouse.

Professional fundraiser, having worked in non-profit my entire career (and my university degree was in a social sciences field). I wouldn’t call myself technically proficient, but I’m technically savvy - I was an early adopter of the internet as a teen, and have been online in some form or another since the mid-90s. Fuck spez.

Physician.

Not really a tech person, most of my jobs have been in customer service or warehouse/manufacturing work. I mainly switched to lemmy because the 3pa change helped me realize I've been so tired of all the ads and bs reddit keeps pushing; it's pretty much garbage compared to the site it used to be 10+ years ago when I found it.

I do appreciate how much tech gets discussed here though. It's interesting to see things talked about that I wouldn't normally be exposed to, so I do learn a bit from time to time.

I'm doing PhD in math, but I've always been interested in tech and programming.

I'm technically non-tech, but have a bachelors degree in a hard science. I say technically because I did learn a bit of programming and other skills because I'm of a certain age and also you sort of have to if you want to make your work life not suck.

If I can create an automation that can do something that would normally take me days or weeks? Hells yes. (+1 if it's a fun challenge and +2 if I can transfer a time-saving tool to my co-workers).

But it looks like magic (scary magic) if you don't have that background/skill set.

And... long story short... I now work in a science-adjacent job but I've also gained the reputation as a "computer hacker" at my workplace. I appreciate how funny that is because I'm nothing of the sort! The thing is: a colleague once - in all seriousness - reported me to IT for these "hacking exploits" that I was committing. With VBA for Excel.* Fortunately, IT laughed their asses off when they heard that one and I've retained my job.

• to be fair, it was a prank that I ran on her and my other colleague.

I am a ux designer and design in a tech company so I am around tech and development often. I also can do the bare minimum of coding as a hobby and enjoying tech topics.

It would be nice if lemmy had more non-tech communities as well though, but they are growing in number. I haven't used other social media besides Reddit or lemmy for years now and have no interest in any other.

I’m in finance. Have nothing to do with tech. It’s interesting to me and I’ve always been into tech stuff but not professionally

I'm a gig worker who delivers food to people.

I almost went into CS and consider myself fairly well-educated, so I think although I'm not in tech I share a slightly similar background and sensibilities with Lemmy folks. I just got on here a couple days ago and it kinda reminds me of reddit back when I joined (hopefully minus the racism and spez's favorite subreddit)

Non-tech, office worker (sourcing / procurement).

I’m a US Licensed Customs Broker (I help people/companies navigate Customs laws and classification to import stuff). I have been building and tinkering with PCs since I was a teenager though I have no schooling.

Very mixed background. Retail, customer service, warehouser, some technical support (HP laser printers in the 00s), a season and a half of a TV show, single-dad, commissioned fanfiction writer...

Not very technical, I manage the testing of an anti money laundering system for a bank. I work with lots of coders but I'm definitely not one myself, more of an analyst than anything else.

I picked lemmy because I didn't want to continue using reddit and this seemed like the best alternative when I did a small amount of browsing. So far I enjoy it even with less content, means I waste less time scrolling.

I'm a non tech person I'm an almost nurse.

I'm "technically/mechanically inclined" as they say, but formally, "professionally," I'm just a worthless factory worker schmuck lol

Musician and amateur gamedev reporting in.

Psychiatric nurse here from Belgium

A science student. I view "non-technical" and "non-tech/non-techy" as kinda different, as in the latter are more specific to stuff related to computers, at least that's my perception. I'm non-tech or non-techy.

I mean i took a programming class and damn near failed it my first semester of college so hopefully that doesn’t disqualify me. I work in insurance for now.

I just switched over because Apollo was my favorite time killer, and I can’t stand the Reddit mobile app.

I'm a registered nurse and came over from years of Sync Pro. Currently using Connect and I quite like it.

Edit: though not in a technology centered career, technology is very integral to what I do.

I have also been into computers and technology for a long time.

It isn't my field, but tech and selfhosting is definitely my hobby.

Graduated with a criminology degree, do work with vocational rehab and have done random stints of juvenile services. I don't have a tech background, but definitely have an interest in tech stuff, I'd say easily moreso than the average citizen.

But like, I've tried to learn HTML and I couldn't get past the first few Khan Academy lessons lol. The logic it used just didn't jive with my brain.

Mighty housewife. Used to have a semi-techy civilian job with the military. I recently volunteered to manage a very small community computer lab in my town. cybersecurity and sysadmin have been instructive here, but I usually can be found loitering at noncredibledefense.

Non tech background (art education), but I do like a minor bit of tech tinkering and tweaking

Aiming to remain semi retired for as long as possible doing a couple of hours work a day...

The rest of the time? I have several art projects to occupy me, and now I've migrated over from reddit to here I have more time available for that.

I have also created a few art subs here that I'm hoping to set up properly soon, and see where they go

Am a nurse, but consider myself a bit of a computer geek. Was an avid Reddit user, but left in protest of the changes and never looked back. I've enjoyed participating in the growth of lemmy, learning the system by trial and error in throughout the migration. Has been really enjoyable, reminding me of when I switched over to Linux a bit in the early 2000's before becoming an avid gamer.

I know a lot of the non-tech savvy folks and younger generations were disappointed when joining lemmy and learning it isn't a polished platform like most other commercial social media is, but imo that's part of its charm, knowing it is a growing, living work in progress with the many dedicated developers devoting their free time to continually improve it.

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.

I'm a geographer and haven't been techie since it was considered technical to connect a VCR to a TV using RCA cables

I’m semi tech related? Work in the graphic design industry. So I’m adjacent to some of the things here.

Medical professional here. I am pretty tech savvy tho..

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.

I’m a bartender

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.

I'm an advertising copywriter. I don't use much tech on a day-to-day basis (I tend to write about deodorant, which is definitely on the lower-tech side) but I have some extremely limited coding in my background, and I like building PCs.

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

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.