50 hours and wet ink on your ticket used to be enough to get a banner gig most places. But with the industry being what it is these days, I think 400-600 total is probably competitive at most of the places that are worth working for. There are a few companies out there who will probably still hire a guy with 10 hours of tailwheel and wet ink on their ticket. But they'll charge you training and they'll put you in some of the most un-airworthy and/or illegal crap that you'll ever see. In fact most of those companies will only hire guys with wet ink on their ticket and won't hire anyone who has over 500 hours and/or has worked for any other company. That's because they know guys with more time and experience will quit after a week because they know that they don't have to put up being treated like crap and being forces to fly death traps. That alone should tell you why you don't want to work there.
I well understand (and remember) what its like to be in that catch-22 area of needing job to get experience and needing experience to get a job. So I know how tempting it is to go to the one guy who will hire you even though everyone who has worked in the industry is telling you to stay away. Still, stay away from them if you can at all find a way to do it. It ain't easy to do, but do whatever you can to find a way. You'll be much better off in the long run if you do.
