I think most all of us here on Lemmy are people with technical background. Most of my professional contacts remained using Reddit, Twitter and even excited when Threads launched.

If you are non-tech background, please comment and share what you do for life.

If you have tech background, upvote this to help promote this post so that we can find more non-tech users on Lemmy.

  • AttackBunny@kbin.social
    25·
    1 year ago

    Work on/build racecars. Some of it’s very technical, but probably not the type you’re asking about. Also a woman. I’m checking off all the abnormal demographics here. Right?

      • AttackBunny@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        @techconsulnerd I agree!!! It’s been a very, very slow process, but I have been seeing more women in motorsports, which is awesome. Even F1 has a new series F1 Academy, which is an all women series. I’m way too old, but if I was younger, I’d sure be trying to get in.

    • Cybermass@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah the only other abnormal demographic I can think of is being totally normal and well functioning mentally.

      But I mean c’mon, this is an internet forum, we are all nuts here haha

  • Phx333@lemmy.ml
    19·
    1 year ago

    62 years old woman, semi-retired, only work part time now. I was in the travel business. Found Lemmy thru a Reddit comment a few months ago. Felt the need for a change. Currently with Lemmy, Kbin and Mastodon, trying to find my place.

  • Rocky60@lemm.ee
    14·
    1 year ago

    Non tech background here. I work in a steel mill and see social media as entertainment. A time killer.

  • BakingCookies@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    I’m a substitute teacher, and definitely not technical but my husband is, and he introduced me to Reddit many years ago. It was fun but I only ever used it on the RIF app. When I saw what was happening last month, I read a thread that suggested Lemmy as an alternative so here I am.

  • Murbella@lemmy.ml
    10·
    1 year ago

    I’m a stay at home mom, no professional tech background. I came here to get away from Reddit. I am considered the “tech support” for my family and friends though. :-)

  • wwaxwork@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Stay at home wife. I used to work as a bookkeeper, now dealing with some health issues. However I am 55 and have used computers since as long as i can remember, I learned how to use punch cards in what you yanks would call middle school. So I don’t work in tech, but it doesn’t bother me to learn new things. Lemmy reminds me of the good old days of BBS and just trying things out to see what stuck.

  • mewpichu@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    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

  • Cleveland Rock@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m disabled and unemployed with only a GED education. I’m not a programmer or anything. I taught myself basic HTML in 1997 when I was 10, but that’s about as far as I go. I know juuuuust enough about tech to understand and appreciate that Lemmy is decentralized and open-source.

    But I think you’ll find that a lot of new users are only here because Spez is ruining Reddit. All they’re looking for is a Reddit that doesn’t suck.

  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
    2·
    1 year ago

    Arborist. No real tech background or skills but always been interested in tech trends and issues, so I keep up with those things more than the average person.

  • uhauljoe@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m non tech.

    I just work as essentially an administrative assistant in a real estate-esque office making $20 an hour.

    Just a married woman in her 20s who is sick of Reddit’s shit.

  • iamdisillusioned@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Legal field for me, but I’ll be honest. I was planning on quitting Reddit cold turkey and doing something else with my free time but my software project manager husband kept talking about Lemmy, so here I am.

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m a biologist, but have always been fairly techy in my own time outside of my work. Definitely not much of a tech person though, I can’t code or anything like that. Can troubleshoot most of my own technical issues though and built a PC.