Consider yourself lucky...

that you didn't waste your time getting a Master's degree and then trying to get that job. I know a chiropdist who had a Master's degree and tried to get a similar job and a nurse with a 2 year diploma got the job instead. So the chiropodist with 9 years of post grade 12 found out that the nurse with her 2 year post grade 12 nursing diploma got the job. So the chiropodist quit the profession.