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[–] NotMichaelCera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] megsmagik@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

I don’t have a specific job, I do administrative work, customer service, worked in a few shops… I would love to work in tech but I’m not an expert, just passionate about it! I tried to follow an online course but I need a real teacher and where I live there aren’t many opportunities unless you go to university

[–] JillyB@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] mewpichu@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] binchicken@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago

I'm a student, gonna start (undergrad) medical school this summer.

[–] SpringMango7379@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I’m an administrator so I work with MS Office but that is about it as far tech. I did dabble a bit in high school and college with some basic computer programming but that was ages ago and things have vastly changed since then.

[–] wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm a data analyst that's started to do more data science stuff (learning SQL/python) but not sure I would quite class myself as technical yet.

[–] Khorgor666@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I'm a chemical plant operator working for one of the big companies in Germany

[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Not technical, but always interested in technical advances.

[–] Ometeotl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't have much technical background, but wanted to share somewhere that... last month, some news apps on my Android 13 phone stopped loading; most importantly, Germany's Deutsche Welle, but also another public broadcasters'apps from Germany, and to a lesser degree the British BBC. I live and I'm from the country south of the border of the US, and my ISP used to be the dominant one (not anymore).

Checked if the apps would run fine on my phone's network, not the landline ISP. They did. They also ran smooth with a VPN, an integrated proxy, and finally, with another ISP, after I cancelled with the previous one. So, I guess it may have been the dominant ISP. Other news apps and anything else ran fine.

Are you used to these things happening every once in a while and I shouldn't make a big deal of it?

Best wishes

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[–] kuzcospoison@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Not technically in tech, I'm an oceanographer but work with numerical modeling so ehhhhh

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