The two most thankless jobs in tech are Project Manager (ie, the person who keeps track of project progress) and Tech writer. Both have been continuously blown off by engineers since the dawn of my career, 30 years ago. Both are powerless to hold engineers accountable and especially Tech Writers don't get any credit even though most customers rely on them completely. Engineers think they're too good and too busy to do technical writing for documentation, but then blow off technical writers who want to do the work for them and just need a few hours to understand features, etc.
I had an idea 10 years ago to hire a bunch of English majors as interns for the summer to bootstrap a big technical writing project, but that got shut down almost immediately. No engineer values tech writers, because they envision themselves as large great white sharks, and the tech writers to them are just bottom feeders that exist in their ecosystem.
I had an idea 10 years ago to hire a bunch of English majors as interns for the summer to bootstrap a big technical writing project, but that got shut down almost immediately. No engineer values tech writers, because they envision themselves as large great white sharks, and the tech writers to them are just bottom feeders that exist in their ecosystem.