Self-publishing or working at Microsoft?

Adam Barr wrote a book about his tenure at Microsoft, 10 years as a programmer, sounds interested and I may someday get a chance to read it. He’s written other things too but I got a great laugh out of Dr. Selfpub, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Amazon.Com, his story of his experience writing and selling the book. Lucky dog, Barr sold his MS options when the stock was over $100/share early last year; I only wish I’d done the same with Sun. I read about Adam’s book and article in Victor Stone’s interesting article Image Problems; Stone also previously worked as a programmer at MS, although not with Barr.