I'm technical in a broad sense but not in the tech industry. I'm a production engineer putting in production lines for the auto industry.
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I'm currently an attorney but in another life I worked help desk in the military.
Non tech. Designer.
I'm a programmer but I don't think there is a high bar of entry here, maybe with so many options to choose from maybe
Ive worked in kitchens most of my life, now I work in AI and I have my own copy editing business, and go to school for Info Systems and Supply Chain Management. Wasnt tech but im slowly pushing into it because these are skills ill need to get to retire with money in the bank.
Tech background, but never worked with it.
I'm a plumber now, used to design trusses for houses.
I'm in marketing haha, I joke that I'm my parent's IT person, but that's just about as technical as I get
I took a computer programming class for a semester in high school and was a Computer Science major for a month in college, but thatβs the closest thing Iβve got to anything resembling a technical background.
Work in a chemical factory making soap. I'm a supervisor for a night shift. Been working factory since high school.
Sounds fairly technical to me.
Yeah, I agree. I'm a programmer, and I too would also expect the majority of people using decentralized platforms have a technical background.
I'm far from a technical background. I make storyboards and concepts for ads and animations. Mostly related to graphics and illustration. Sort of a digital art director.
At the same time I do all my work on a tablet + computer and am a huge tech enthusiast.
I'm a chemical plant operator working for one of the big companies in Germany
Human troubleshooting (I'm a therapist). My dad is an engineer who always built his own PCs and gave me a pretty solid foundation for the software side of things, as well as basic car knowledge. Haven't kept up on that in a while but I'm Tier 1 tech support for my parents (my brother is Tier 2) π
Arts admin. But I live and grew up in Silicon Valley; my dad worked in tech although he wasnβt an engineer, so we always had fairly up-to-date tech and Iβm pretty comfortable with it. But when my husband (software engineer) and I watch Linus Tech Tips, most of it goes over my head. I adopted Lemmy during the Reddit blackout before he did (and funny enough, I also switched to Reddit during the Digg fiasco before he did, too).
I would certainly characterize myself as a tech-enthusiast rather than from a technical background. I have a Chemistry degree and work in a tangentially related field (Brewing industry) though mainly on the sales/retail side rather than production. I don't code but it's certainly something I am interested in. I've set up a Pi-hole on my home network and have a small Plex-Server streaming downloaded media (as I try in vain to disentangle myself from the myriad of streaming services that exist).
Non-tech background sort of? Work in games but on the localization end of things.
I work in healthcare but have always been interested in tech, but not professionally.