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.

Not me, that's for sure.

I was just here to promote a movie.

Photojournalist. I just pretend to know what the buttons do... it works. They all think I'm some kind of a genius with the picture machine, but I'm actually an artist.

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.

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

Factory worker. Not tech illiterate but also not exactly an expert in any respect.

Have been abnormal though, Internet-wise. I only have a twitter to post crap from Switch to lazily import screenshots to computer. When Facebook asked for my real name I said fuck you and never looked back.

Reddit was the only social media that I actually used as social media.

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

I am a mere washed-out adult. just work retail and wish I was going somewhere in my life

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

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.

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.

I’m an artist, maker and workshop technician. Apollo refugee.

Not a techie, background in journalism.

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

By background, no. Current lawyer, Classics major.

But... I am presently defending a Bittorrent copyright infringement case and negotiated a software license agreement a few weeks ago.

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 do ceramics full time with my SO. We run the pottery subreddit but computery stuff is just a hobby! Heard about lemmy after losing the reddit is fun app. Its much better!

I work in the restaurant industry.

I have a 14 year old MacBook pro.

Not very tech savvy

Metal fabrication

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 :)

I'm tech literate but I wouldn't consider myself technical compared to a lot of people here. I struggle with adapting to new concepts. Takes a while to get my head around them.

For instance (no pun intended) when twitter shat the bed and I heard about Mastodon being an alternative. I looked to into it but it seemed a bit overwhelming to figure out.

Fast forward to Reddit shitting the bed and the bits of knowledge learned from Mastodon helped me in converting to Lemmy.

I'm mid 40's and it's really frustrating that I can't figure things out like I could in my teens and 20's.

My only background is in Hell/customer service. Like most of us, Reddit was home for so long. I wouldn't call myself super tech-savvy, but I fucked around with the Fediverse, figured it out and am happy to not create content for that shitbird Spez. Thanks for listening

Stay at home parent, former chef. The closest thing to tech background I have is electrician training in night school.

I'm pastor in France. Nothing techy…

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.

I do invasive insect surveys

Nurse ova here

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.

non-tech, older millennial, and going back for nursing. I've been on the internet since the 90s and I love computers (and tech in general) but I'm not very tech-inclined

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

Used to be a handyman now I'm a machinist

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 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

Environmental protection here. Making sure people don't fuck any shit up worse than it is. To be fair I do IT work on the side and hope to transfer into the field one day. You'd be surprised how many folks out there think I'm the enemy but they're just mad they got caught, or completely misinformed.

"What do you mean i can't dump oil down a drain?? Like, what can you dump down them then?"

Literally a question someone asked me this week.

I'm a medical lab manager. I don't work in tech professionally, but it has always interested me. By default I handle all my labs technical issues. Lol I loved using reddit via a 3rd party app and was disgusted how things were handled so I have come here to test the waters. So far I'm finding this exciting and I'm having fun!

I'm a chef lol

I'm a professional photographer, hardly "tech" although that world interests me.

Been in the foodservice industry for a lot of years. Quit that and switched to nonprofit social services.

I am of the age that I remember helping my mom set the time on her VCR so it would stop blinking 12:00. Now I need my kids to help me with stuff they consider pretty basic.

I work in HR. Im also working on getting the fuck out of HR. Not into anything techy, though. I came here from reddit just before rif died.

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.