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[–] zauri27@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

social sciences (anthro) background but have always been a bit on the tech savvy side and had tech support jobs

[–] Moohamin12@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

I’m 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.

[–] toiletwhole@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I’m kinda like a handyman for a medical laboratory. Actually hard to define…from fixing doors to fixing medical equipment

I'm a surgical technologist, so, "tech", but not IT.

[–] binchicken@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a student, gonna start (undergrad) medical school this summer.

[–] DocSophie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Does payroll count as technical? I suppose maybe within our payroll system (Workday), but that's peanuts compared to like actual tech jobs.

[–] richyawyingtmv@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] A_S_B 3 points 1 year ago

University student. Doing business. Not that tech savvy. I will learn some programing languages because finding a job(a good one) gets harder and harder every year.

[–] Wenchette@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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

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.

[–] Bebo@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am a Ph.D in Chemistry, now doing an MBA in finance.

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[–] holupwaitaminute@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Non-tech user here. Well I'm tech-minded I think, and tech-savvy. I know enough code to say that I thoroughly dislike PHP and Javascript. But that's about it.

I think "fediverse" and "instances" are terms many non-tech-oriented might find confusing. and off-putting, maybe because they're not immediately intuitive. I'm aware of the concept of instancing but wasn't sure how or where to create an account at first. I made an account on world because I figured I'd probably see more content there? I don't know.

And making a new account for each instance? I'm not entirely sure if that's how it works yet but that's my understanding. It's intimidating, it's daunting. Plus I'm not as tech savvy as a lot of the people here. It's not that it's uninviting, really--quite the opposite, in fact--but I still have this imposter syndrome-like feeling that I'm not supposed to be here.

Idk. That's my take.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know enough code to say that I thoroughly dislike PHP and Javascript

Then you don't know enough code.

And making a new account for each instance?

That's not necessary, you can join any community on any instance, for example one on my instance, !wwdits@lemmings.world - you might notice it's on the lemmings.world instance and even though you're on lemmy.world, you should be able to click the link and see the posts / subscribe / write comments / posts.

I still have this imposter syndrome-like feeling that I’m not supposed to be here

If you like it here, it's exactly where you should be!

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[–] plutolink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do music, photography/videography, strength training, student too, but it started by being into tech (still am), it's helped for doing music/photography greatly.

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