Gflo, if I may, please let me offer what might be some good advice.
You may be experiencing the "can't see the forest because of the trees" syndrome.
I think you are over-complicating your situation.
Why get hung-up over whether a position is unpaid or paid? Just expose yourself to any and every opportunity there is to get the experience you desire.
In essence, you are putting blinders on yourself, in my opinion, or subconsciously distracting yourself by dissecting the issue of paid vs. unpaid internship, when instead, you could be focusing on a hard-target job search.
Why waste crucial time investigating this issue when you have yet to be offered a suitable position for yourself?
