Apparently nobody bothered to tell you all about this

Or a paid one. Which is nicer. And pretty easily negotiable.

Me? But I'm 16 so there's a lot I don't know about the real world

I'm only seventeen and my birthday was just a few weeks ago and i've known this for a long time... But to be fair, my school has a mandatory internship program on the last year and is economically and administrative orientated, so they teach us a lot about this kind of stuff