I am in the middle of a job search, and have somewhat come to the conclusion that the only place of employment I could do, outside of working with clients as an independent contractor with Astro Solutions, is to work for Google, as I am committed to seeing their vision of the web, take hold. I have been in contact with one of the managers at the Ann Arbor office, who has advised me that he relies on hiring from the California recruiters, that review the on-line applications for employment through the google.com/jobs process, and so if ever a Google recruiter reads this post, here is my cover letter, with a link to my resume: http://docs.google.com/View?id=df3cskrr_241dqt8wtfv I don’t know what it is going to take to get somewhere in the process, as my most legitimate qualification is to work, and possibly lead, Google’s efforts in to the middleware sector of enterprise software, as I have detailed in my other blog, Views on the Industry. But until someone notices the Glassfish for hardware spec’s swap that would ease the burden of both Google and Oracle, I continue to apply for on-line sales and customer service jobs, just so I could stay in Michigan, and be based out of the AdWords Ann Arbor office. I would like to stay in Grand Rapids, and manage the AdWords accounts of all the businesses in this city, and help Google prepare for the roll-out of Google Fiber, but my true passion is just getting someone to acknowledge that .Net is a threat to Google and Oracle, and they could use my idea of a swap to help kill Microsoft off, once-and-for-all…. I use Google Docs to do my collaboration, Google Sites for designing my web-site, Google Wave for project management, Google AdWords to push my job search, and Blogger, Mail, Picasa, Code, Chrome, and soon to get Android. I am more committed to Google’s future than probably a lot of the current employees, but would greatly appreciate the opportunity to get an inside look at how the most effective web company operates. I challenge any Google employee out there, who may stumble on my blog, or one of my writings, and see my links on Google, if you search me, and tell me I am not qualified to work for the leading on-line corporation on the planet, and the ideas i have will take Google to the next level, as an enterprise vendor, which is their next logical step, after building Android and Chrome OS. The Glassfish proposal as detailed by several entries, if you look down on the link I have above to my enterprise systems blog, would effectively solidify Java as the standard for development, and even though Google continues to customize and optimize, they are born out of the work to create a better developer experience than the lock-in that Microsoft and Apple espouse. It would cement Google’s portfolio, and would counter all of .Net, in one single move, it would rally developers to Google Code, a major area of development for the company. I truly believe that after once believing I truly belonged at Sun Microsystems, that i truly belong at Google, and when i set my mind to getting something, like what i have finally determined, after seven years of wandering, that Google is the only place for me, and helping achieve the long-stated goal of making the web perfect, and yet still improving. That has been my calling ever since I got to work with the incredible talent at Netscape, in the waning days of the original Internet superstar, and realized that unless you are building web-facing products, you are not really participating in the future of business. Everything, absolutely everything, is going to the web, living on-line will be ubiquitous to every facet of life, and the most user-friendly, dominant likelihood scenario, is that it will be Google in all facets of the on-line experience. I could not work for any company, that did not have that as its core objective, and until I start my own company, with those same principles, it will be only one mantra, and that is to work for Google…. Technology Industry