After almost a year of looking, I finally was offered a job as a nurse practitioner and just mailed in my signed contract today. I will be working on the hospitalist service (general inpatient medicine) of a community hospital in southern Maine. It will be a few months before I can start since there's a lot of paperwork that has to go through, but I am beyond excited right now! Now it's time to start looking at places to live up there...it seems like there's quite a bit to pick from and the rents are reasonable.