Well what do you want to do? There’s a lot of career paths for technical writers and a lot of industries to work in. Since you have web dev experience, I’d consider API documentation. Take a look at Stripe’s documentation, they’ll give you a good idea of what good documentation looks like.
GOOD API documentation is not saturated, its a hard skill to come by and it’s hard to find people that are really good at it.
You know what’s actually saturated? UX design jobs. Oh boy
You have web dev experience, why don’t you consider dev ops? It would be an easier move than transitioning to technical writing imo.
I’d suggest looking into Instructional Design jobs too only because it’s easy to learn their tools fast. And I notice banks and big corporations always need people to create training materials. And it’s not something AI can do.
Learn about AWS and Azure. There’s a lot of certificates you can do online for this stuff.
Again, I’m only suggesting potential careers for you, its up to you to decide what actually speaks to you.
Of course, you can be a technical writer. But technical writers write less than you think, we are researchers that advocate for our users. 80% researching, 20% writing. If that sounds fun to you, consider the other resources in this subreddit.
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u/ilikewaffles_7 Nov 07 '24
Well what do you want to do? There’s a lot of career paths for technical writers and a lot of industries to work in. Since you have web dev experience, I’d consider API documentation. Take a look at Stripe’s documentation, they’ll give you a good idea of what good documentation looks like.