Asklemmy

Work on/build racecars. Some of it's very technical, but probably not the type you're asking about. Also a woman. I'm checking off all the abnormal demographics here. Right?

62 years old woman, semi-retired, only work part time now. I was in the travel business. Found Lemmy thru a Reddit comment a few months ago. Felt the need for a change. Currently with Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon, trying to find my place.

Non tech background here. I work in a steel mill and see social media as entertainment. A time killer.

I'm an assembly line worker and have been for about five years now at different factories. Refrigerators, car parts, ag equipment, etc.

There's a job opening coming up at a plant that offers college benefits though, so hopefully I get to join y'all in tech in a few years. Hopefully working with so many robots and machines will give me an advantage through sheer osmosis lol

I'm a stay at home mom, no professional tech background. I came here to get away from Reddit. I am considered the "tech support" for my family and friends though. :-)

Arborist. No real tech background or skills but always been interested in tech trends and issues, so I keep up with those things more than the average person.

I'm a biologist, but have always been fairly techy in my own time outside of my work. Definitely not much of a tech person though, I can't code or anything like that. Can troubleshoot most of my own technical issues though and built a PC.

Non-tech Background. I work for a big union and migrated here from reddit, which was my only social media site I would use.

I'm a baker. Found lemmy through a friend

Non-tech background. I'm a book editor and when the Snoopocalypse happened, most of the niche communities I was a part of were shut down in protest, so I decided to give Lemmy a try. Loving it so far, as it seems way less toxic.

non tech, i currently am not working but i have a bachelor’s degree in paleontology and am currently studying for my master’s in museum studies. my partner is a programmer but i’m the one that introduced her to lemmy

I'm a truck driver though I do have a Master's in maths. Make of that what you will.

Not technical at all, I work in Learning & Development at a company. I am always reading the comments and try to learn, but sometimes I have really no clue what you guys are talking about haha!

Yesterday someone was expleaning about adblocker and all the comments were like: "Yeah, who can live without it..." Well, me I guess? And I saw one that was highly recommended so I downloaded it, because why not try it out right? But apparently it's not for your phone. Or I didn't have the right app to support it on my phone.

I was thinking about asking it in the comments of the thread, but like you said: I think a lot of people here have a tech background and although everyone is very nice, I think the explanation might go over my head.

I don't want to give people the feeling I get when I'm trying to explain to my mom over the phone how she can e-mail a file on her computer. It can be very frustrating ;)

Pre-Med student here. Just ya average non-average queer neurodivergent zoomer. I'm not from a tech background, but I do use Linux, which basically makes me a programmer 😎

I'm a geologist.

Classical composer here, and choral conductor. I've always been a computer person, but I don't have a background on tech stuff.

Family law attorney who hates bullies. Fuck spez!

I have a PhD in sociology and I actually work in market research. I don't have a tech background at all!

Non- tech: I’m a psychiatrist, generally working with offenders in hospital and prisons. The clinical work is always interesting, and im usually thankful for openness at which people spill their life stories to me.

Tech: I’ve kinda thought myself software development since I started working as a doctor. There’s just too much inefficiencies in the way we work clinically day-to-day due to the sheer amount of defensive practice inherent in the health system. Started off with personal tools to “assist” the electronic systems in place. But since then I’ve launched and maintained a number of digital clinical tools in a few local hospital which I’m pretty proud of.

I'm a librarian

All of my friends are either programmers or are in I.T. I'm a lowly handyman who just happens to be tech literate enough to get by.

Electrician here, came to upvote, realized I should be posting. My formal computer training ended with Java and qBasic in 2003.

I'm a security officer. Reddit pissed me off with all the rules and I was looking for somewhere that the internet felt more like the good old days. Haven't found it yet but lemmy is like a breath of fresh air

I majored in English, now I make artisanal pizzas.

I am a doctor, not quite a techy person, I’m just tired of the shitshow that is conventional social media

I'm a chef lol

I'm a music composer and currently learning deep learning to help me compose music and arrange it. I don't know if I should consider myself as a non-tech person or not.

Social worker in sexual education and health from Germany

Hobby tech-savy but mainly enthusiastic for tech stuff Aim to do IT to social service translation

Greetings :)

Political scientist checking in, but I'm doing statistics in R and installed Linux for the first time before I hit puberty, so I guess I'm not entirely non-technical.

Am here both out of an interest for open source and because I consider centralized social media platforms to be dangerous for society, so it seems worthwhile to help fight them. I'm also pushing 30, so I'm nostalgic to the days of yore of independent forums.

I am a translator. I do like tech and learning about it but that's about it.

I came to Lemmy because reddit killed 3rd party apps and because I really support the idea of the fediverse.

Bro I don't even understand what a server is. My spouse explains it to me like every second week and I get it for like 30 seconds but I just don't understand to remember. I'm also not sure what a router is. Apparently Wifi is like radio, just waves? Wtf

I've got a MSc degree in Biomedicine and before going on parental leave (still am) I've worked in pharmaceutical research and with DNA/RNA analytical services in the lab. My biggest tech experience was trying to code with R and I hated it and it was a mess.

Construction industry project manager here.

Sure, we use lots of tech and actually build a lot of the data-centers and fabs that are the backbone of the internet and modern computing, but the on-the-ground nuts and bolts of what we do is very much about highly-skilled tradesmen performing manual work that can't be done remotely or by robots.

So it's not really "tech" per se at all, even though we do a ton of work for companies like Intel, Google, Meta and the like.

I assume, considering this is the fediverse, that by "technical" you mean IT-related, Silicon Valley type fields.
While I grew up on computers and know my way around them, and have a bachelor's degree in biochem, I'm an Operating Engineer.
That's the proper title of "union guy that runs heavy construction equipment." Mostly, I help build or resurface roads.
I'm one of the guys y'all get irritated with when your local highway is restricted to one lane by a work enclosure, but are thankful for when your new road rides nice.
It pays really well though, so there's that. And it is actually very technical, but in a materials/engineering sense.

Cinema worker, diorama maker/sometime animator. I jumped ship from Reddit about 2 days before RiF became unusable. Have been progressively finding more (if not identical) interests to pursue in fediverse, and unexpectedly contributing more content than I did on Reddit.

I'm a carpenter apprentice and a refugee from RIF.

I don't have a tech background, currently doing museum security, that's all. Super enjoyable work. This community is nice, I only lurked in reddit.

Non-technical background here. I do strategic policy work.

I don't have any job, since I'm disabled and just live off government disability benefits. For hobbies though, I still don't get much into anything tech related. I do cooking and sometimes attempt writing. Unless tinkering with Linux a tiny bit sometimes counts as tech.

Wastewater Operator. We have an older gentleman at my job who refuses to use computers at all. We still do everything with paper and pen. Nothing is digitized.

Non tech, I currently work in municipal water but previous to that was municipal sewer.

I also saw in this thread I'm not the only woman working on a racecar! Hell yeah

i’m a psychology student going to graduate school for counseling :) wouldn’t consider myself to have a tech background - tech savvy enough to build my own pc and troubleshoot common tech problems for friends, but not tech savvy enough to understand most open source technology