Some states require 1000 hours of practice to get a license
to cut hair.
Flying time for license is a LOT LESS.
I worked in the trade 42 years..and every year you were required to renew the license and have a ‘chest x-ray’ as well, then years later they required you to get additional education in the field, and the former POTUS cited the extra jobs they created in their terms!!!
I loved working and miss it even today..but so much has changed, it is not the same.
“Flying time for license is a LOT LESS.”
I think you can get a commercial IFR license with a bare minimum of 200 hours. That’s not the “beginner” license.
Some unscrupulous Chinese restaurants require dishwashers to work 1000 free as “training”. Strangely, it’s mandatory when the government does it, illegal when the restaurant owner does it.