I don't know if I count but I'm a communications student. Information technology is somewhat related but this field isn't pragmatic when it comes to that. I'm probably one of the few students here who's interested in studying (alternative) media platforms over media content.

It's rare to have dicussions on things like copyleft, privacy, open-source software, and decentralized communications platforms, all of which I genuinely believe are worthwhile topics in this field.

I work as a medical office assistant and left Reddit once whatever 3rd party app I was using was no longer supported. I am however supposed to be learning to take over a medical IT business at some point. Allegedly.

I'm technically Stoopid with computer stuff. I teach elementary school.

I work in a bank and have very little technical knowledge about mechanics, software, coding and web design. However, I know a good deal about computer hardware, as one of my hobbies is fixing and building computers.

I'm an arborist. The most tech I get is figuring out mechanical advantage setups with various pulleys and snatch blocks.

Lecturer at a university! I am a political economist working on post-growth/post-development and trying to change the economics discipline. So I guess I feel quite good on Lemmy now, better than reddit 😁

I'm techie by gift, not by trade. I'm an MA in philosophy. Teaching is my main activity.

Well, I'm here. I'm loving the fediverse. And I'm kinda from outside tech, although being IT literate. So perhaps I should be counted as having a technical background.

Bartender who's studying game design🤚

I work as a barista in a coffee shop. I'm decently techy if you compare me to the average population. I can't code or anything actually technical, but I'm a decent tech support for friends and family (and by that I mean I am able to find and follow instructions written by people smarter than me using search engines).

Part of me would love to go to school and learn how to code, or get a better understanding of computing and land an IT or sysadmin type of role, since I love tinkering around computers (I semi-regularly install and setup a new operating system on my computer just out of boredom) but it seems like too much effort.

Marketing, illustration, and graphic design here. I also dabble in music making but have yet to do anything interesting.

Financial Services here. Licensed Broker for a major firm.

No tech background. I try to get by with online tutorials mostly.

I repair heavy equipment in the mining industry, as a welder.

Physical therapist

In STEM, but not tech specifically. At least not professionally.

I work in hospitality. There's a lot of waiting around at my job, so I mostly used Reddit to kill time. I hopped over to Lemmy since Wefwef's app is better and Blahaj.zone had a Lemmy instance

Im a biologist working in research. Ive always been a hobbyist with computers and videos games. But I never went into tech because I didn't want to make my hobby a full time job.

Love Lemmy and can't wait for it to be number one

Went to school to be a history teacher but ended up working in accounting for a healthcare company. Just like my job I never really planned to be here, but i was on reddit for 11 years before jumping over last month. Im excited by the growth I’ve already seen, and to see how that will continue.

I’m a real estate advisor so definitely non-technical though I do consider myself more familiar with the workings of computers and most other tech than the average person. I’m familiar with the Linux command line at a basic level and have run Linux on my PCs before. I’m also somewhat concerned about online privacy and frustrated over how capitalism is largely destroying the best things about the internet, something which seems to have accelerated as of late..

Marketing / illustrator. I'm tangentially techy 👌

Not techy at all, am very confused mostly. I am figuring all this stuff out though, slowly. It's so new and exciting.

No technical background: historian, former university teacher and researcher, now researching at a museum. Did teach digital humanities though and am uhm... tech friendly?

In a professional sense? Zero technical background. I have a general interest in tech, built a few computers and worked in an electronics section of a store for a few years (almost miss it.) Otherwise I'm the guy who has parents that say I should be in IT just because I know how to set up their TV.

i'm not sure what counts as 'tech background', but i probably count. though my job is as a construction laborer.

Musician now studying compsci because I dun wanna starve :(

Personal care assistant

Private transportation dispatcher. Really not interested in tech stuff unless it involves getting ads and bloatware off my devices

I’m a pilot, certified flight instructor. Not professionally techy, but like techy stuff as a nerdy pastime. Lemmy’s honestly not that complicated, you just need to be willing to put up with the bugs and growing pains. I’m enjoying the ride so far!

Psychiatric nurse here.

I mean, I was a 25B in the army, which could be counted as technical, except that after training I pretty much never saw another army computer and became a radioman.

I'm non-tech, but I was using the internet back in 1994 when you had to know more about how computers worked to get them to do what you wanted.

I work in a warehouse and take care of exotic animals on the side. I feel I have the basics down for tech but not enough to do IT or something. My family and friends contact me for tech help so I guess I know more than the average person. Even though I literally just Google everything, most of the time.