Non tech. Designer.
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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
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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I'm currently an attorney but in another life I worked help desk in the military.
Non-tech background, currently a undergrad student, but formally trained office worker for secretary and business matters.
Tech background, but never worked with it.
I'm a plumber now, used to design trusses for houses.
I am not a geek.
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.
Non-tech career but have always been a tech enthusiast.
Civil Engineering, do a lot of things to keep me interested from design, construction, pm and administrative stuff depending on the phase of the project. And yeah, there is a lot of IT/Programming Guys in Reddit and Lemmy now.
I've never worked in any tech field, but I've built every computer I've ever owned and have been online since '93, which I suppose counts as far as this thread is concerned.
social sciences (anthro) background but have always been a bit on the tech savvy side and had tech support jobs
Non-tech! I'm a buyer for a large wholesaler and distributor.
Iβm a cinematographer and editor so I spend a lot of time working with tech but very specific stuff. Iβm still on reddit for now. At least until Narwhal becomes prohibitive to use. Fuck Twitter and Threads.
Iβm 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.
Iβm kinda like a handyman for a medical laboratory. Actually hard to defineβ¦from fixing doors to fixing medical equipment
I'm a surgical technologist, so, "tech", but not IT.
I'm a student, gonna start (undergrad) medical school this summer.
Does payroll count as technical? I suppose maybe within our payroll system (Workday), but that's peanuts compared to like actual tech jobs.
I'm a CPA and not highly skilled in computer stuff. The fact that I managed to join Lemmy, set up Jerboa and actually participate means that almost anyone can do it
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.
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.