India, March 31 -- A Bengaluru-based techie has caught the internet's attention after announcing that he quit his job at Google to take a year off and "experiment" with life beyond the conventional corporate path.

Harshit Sharma, who worked at Google for 2 years, shared a detailed post on LinkedIn explaining his decision. Calling it a "bittersweet" move, he wrote about leaving behind not just a job, but the people and moments that made it special.

"Bitter because: I will miss my people. The table tennis, the card games, the fun fridays. The (frequent) coffee breaks. The shenanigans in the office space. The post-6PM hangouts. Some of the kindest and most fun humans I've ever known," Sharma wrote.

At the same time, Sharma described a sen...