The comparison, laid out plainly: for a basic corporate desk job paying around sixty thousand, the path runs through an ATS résumé shredder, personality tests, four to six rounds of panel interviews, and an unpaid take-home — and then often ends in silence. For a field tech, a trade, an operations role at the same money, it runs through a credentials check, a fifteen-minute sanity check, and a background check, and you are on site by Monday.
Same salary. Same outcome — the role filled. The only thing the extra rounds reliably produce is the ghosting at the end.