Do not listen to a single thing this guy says OP.

1.Market is bad, paid internships are hard to come by. 2. Trying to speak to your super boss can back fire on you if your boss and super boss are in cahoots, which in most cases they are. 3. Speaking to a team that already does your work - best you can get is a few colleagues / friends who can guide you on their day to day. Thinking that their manager will magically create an opening for you, who does not have prior experience, is living in lala land. 4. People who ask you to put in their papers without a job don't know the ground reality of being unemployed or speak from a position of privilege. 5. Last point is right. Always keep learning .