Denti: First off, i was writing about 200 hour (nowadays 80 hour) wonders out of in-house flight schools or company supervised flight schools.
How times have changed. I had ~5,000hrs when I obtained my first heavy/jet job (B-727 in the Middle East). Too many Vietnam vets to compete with back then.
The irony prior to that was that I was a CFI for one of those in-house pilot mills. They had the airline job I was aspiring to, and I was their flight instructor who was teaching them from scratch for the career I wanted. Decades later, I bumped into one of my early students on a Yokota train station. We were both captains. I was proud of both of us for our success and the effort expended by both of us to get to where we were. It was very gratifying to see that one of my students had done so well for himself.
Never give up...and pray for luck. You don't want your karma to overcome your dogma.