How do I deal with others taking credit for my work?

You can document a building so it actually gets built right, which is a real and demanding skill, and it stings to watch the credit land on others while your name goes unspoken. That resentment is understandable. You do the exacting, invisible work that makes the visible work possible, and the world tends to praise the visible. Here is something worth sitting with: the value of your work does not shrink because someone else takes the bow. The building stands because you got the details right. You know that, the people who build know that, and the ones who matter in your trade know it too. The credit that goes elsewhere is loud but shallow. The respect you have earned is quiet but real, and it lasts. Still, resentment that is never voiced turns to bitterness, so do not just swallow it. Where you can, put your contribution on the record plainly and without apology. And where you cannot, remember that you did not choose this work for the applause. You chose it because you wanted things built right, and they are. Let that be the credit that counts.