Remember, other than your 6 hour conversion, you do not get training time on a day to day basis. Every flight is live and can be in pretty demanding weather conditions from day one. On the job is not the time to be learning low level operations!! Once every 6 months you have an OPC (test) and that hour is the only 'training' you get. So after demonstrating all the profiles, emergencies and handling skills, there is little opportunity to be formally taught anything.
That said, the market is losing pilots faster than they are being employed. Higher wages elsewhere is luring experience away. In the not too distant future, the entry requirements may have to be lowered just to put bums on seats. Have a go, you have nothing to lose.....