Motivation and satisfaction in technical writing

["Mariana Prusorova" <mprusorova -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

It would be interesting in what the techwriters find their motivation for 
working so hard? Please, share some ideas.
In software development particularly, the latest trends are for "zero 
learning" - interfaces are so easy to navigate that the users don't need to 
read any documents. The usability test in our company also proved that only 
about 5% are refering to the help or printed documentation of any kind.
As a freshman in the branch (2 years) I am starting to loose my motivation - 
for whome am I acually writing?
I waist my time writing whitepapers for my colleagues from development 
departments, then they come to me asking: "Please explain me how it works, I 
know that you know it you have written about it probably.., and you know, I 
don't feel like reading whitepapers"

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