The job that turned you down freed up the calendar for the one that fit.

A rejection closes one door and nothing else, but at the time it feels like a verdict on you. What it actually does is return your time. The weeks you would have spent somewhere that was not right are back in your hands, and you get to spend them on the next attempt. That is not a consolation prize, it is the real mechanism.

Give yourself the day to be annoyed, because pretending it did not sting is its own kind of work. Then look at what is now open: the hours, the other applications, the thing you could not have done if they had said yes.