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 technical in a broad sense but not in the tech industry. I'm a production engineer putting in production lines for the auto industry.
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.
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.
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
Does payroll count as technical? I suppose maybe within our payroll system (Workday), but that's peanuts compared to like actual tech jobs.
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.
I'm a student, gonna start (undergrad) medical school this summer.
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
Non-tech career but have always been a tech enthusiast.
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
I'm a surgical technologist, so, "tech", but not IT.
Iβm kinda like a handyman for a medical laboratory. Actually hard to defineβ¦from fixing doors to fixing medical equipment
No tech background. I work as a teaching assistant and after-school teacher with grades 1-4 (not exactly, but those are the closest US equivalents). Always loved technology though so I spend as much time as I can teaching my kiddos programming and other nerdy things.
I am not a geek.
I'm currently an attorney but in another life I worked help desk in the military.