[RL] As it turns out, I have been offered a Masters! Finally, something I have been accepted into, after all these job rejections 
It's in Data Analytics, so it should, in theory. bridge the gap between academic data analysis (which I know), and more practical business applications of the subject.
Good news, I would say
So happy for him
Demand that you be let into the English master's program instead.
That's where all of the big dollars are.